Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing: Sermons, Writings, and Sayings by Meister Eckhart

Author:Meister Eckhart [Eckhart, Meister]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780834826397
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Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Innocents’ Day

Dear children you must know that true spiritual life leads to perfect freedom from self and from all things. One cares nothing, seeks nothing, has nothing, wants nothing for oneself, but frankly resigns oneself to the eternal law, always so clearly shown to the discerning but which none may know unless he is inwardly atoned and outwardly obedient to the discipline perfectly exemplified in our Lord Jesus Christ. Those who live this life, they verily attain to unity, and to know the truth one has to dwell in unity and be the unity. He who is at all aware of his own mind knows and conceives nothing of God’s. By the fact of his knowing and seeing, he is not void. The highest knowing and seeing is knowing and seeing, unknowing, unseeing. To know anything of self is to know nothing of God, and he who wants God to be his is putting an obstacle in his own way. “He who wants God to be his is in danger of spiritual pride,” so says one of the saints. With the righteous soul, the more God is to her the less he is hers, for God is all his own. The right humble spirit is little in itself, because the way of truth is made known to it. True spiritual poverty leads into it. The soul will find no more profound humility than that of our Lord Jesus Christ, who himself declared, “I am not of myself.”

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