Meister Eckhart was one of the most influential 14th c. Christian Neoplatonists, and a faithful Thomist (The philosophical school that arose as a legacy of St. Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic priest). Eckhart wrote on metaphysics and spiritual psychology, used mythic imagery modeled after legends and mythology, and he preached the metaphorical content of the gospels.
“A day, whether six or seven ago, or more that six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why?
Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.”
"There is nothing so much like God
in all the universe as silence".
Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.”
"There is nothing so much like God
in all the universe as silence".
Read Meister Eckhart’s Sermons: Meister Eckhart Sermons
Eckhart's Eye:
ReplyDelete"The eye wherein I see God is the same eye wherein God sees me: my eye and God's eye are one eye, one vision, one knowing, one love."
Meister Eckhart
Eckhart on Free Will.
ReplyDeletefrom the sermon "The Castle of the Soul"
"From time to time I tell of the one power in the soul which alone is free. Sometimes I have called it the tabernacle of the soul-sometimes a spiritual light-again I say it is a spark. But now I say it is neither this nor that. Yet it is somewhat more exalted over this and that than the heavens above are above the earth.... It is of all names free, of all forms void-exempt and free as God is in himself."
Comment by D.T. Suzuki:
"For one who has an 'Eckhartian experience' very well understand what he really means. And what he means is this: a man is free only when he is in God, with God, for God, and this is not the condition of freedom, for when he is in God he is freedom itself. He is free when he realizes that he is actually himself forswearing that he is in God and absolutely free"