Charles would share the story of Thomas Merton’s, “Seven Story Mountain” with his meditation group. One particular quote that he would share with us was regarding the word aeseitas.
Thomas Merton: What do we think of when we think of God?
“Aseitas…aseity-simply means the power of a being to exist absolutely in virtue
of itself, not as caused by itself, but as requiring no course, no other justification
for its existence except that its very nature is to exist. There can be only one
such Being; that is God….God is Being Itself.:
(“The Seven Storey Mountain” p.172ff)