Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing

A very good little book I found many years ago.

Meister Eckhart (b. 1260) was a Catholic Mystic who walked a fine line between Catholic Spiritualism and outright Pantheism. After reading this book I became very interested in Panentheism and especially the Non-Dual teachings found in Hindu Advaita Vedanta. The works of the Catholic, Jewish and Hindu Mystics inspire my paintings where God is there present in all things. If God is Infinite then God is Infinite ....

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Some of Meister Eckhart's thoughts and words ....

“The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.”

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.”
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

“We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.”

“The more we have the less we own.”“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”

“As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.”

“And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”

More on Meister Eckhart: "Eckhart von Hochheim O.P. (c. 1260 – c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart [ˈmaɪ̯stɐ ˈɛkʰaʀt], often Eckehart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire.

Eckhart came into prominence during the Avignon Papacy, at a time of increased tensions between monastic orders, diocesan clergy, the Franciscan Order, and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Preachers. In later life, he was accused of heresy and brought up before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII. He seems to have died before his verdict was received. Eckhart's status in the contemporary Catholic Church has been uncertain. The Dominican Order pressed in the last decade of the 20th century for his full rehabilitation and confirmation of his theological orthodoxy. Pope John Paul II voiced favorable opinion on this initiative, even going as far as quoting from Eckhart's writings, but the affair is still confined to the corridors of the Vatican. In the spring of 2010, it was revealed that there was finally a response from the Vatican in a letter dated 1992. Timothy Radcliffe, then Master of the Dominicans and recipient of the letter, summarized the contents as follows:

We tried to have the censure lifted on Eckhart and were told that there was really no need since he had never been condemned by name, just some propositions which he was supposed to have held, and so we are perfectly free to say that he is a good and orthodox theologian He was well known for his work with pious lay groups such as the Friends of God. Since the 19th century, he has received renewed attention. He has acquired a status as a great mystic within contemporary popular spirituality, as well as considerable interest from scholars situating him within the medieval scholastic and philosophical tradition." (Wikipedia)