Month: March 2002

• Meister Eckhart on Simplicity

  “So I say that the aristocrat is one who derives his being, his life, and his happiness from God alone, with God and in God and not at all from his knowledge, perception, or love of God, or any such thing….This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root…

• Meister Eckhart: 20th sign of genuine seers: “…they will let him prevail…”

  If you would know and recognize the really sane and genuine seers of God, whom nothing can deceive or misinform, four and twenty signs can detect them… The twentieth sign: if any man fight them, they will let him prevail before accepting help of any sort but God’s… These are the signs of the true…

• Meister Eckhart: “…one man whose mind is free from notions and from forms…”

  “According to one master, many people arrive at specific understanding, at formal, notional knowledge. There are few who get beyond the science and the theory; yet one man whose mind is free from notions and from forms is more dear to God than the hundred thousand who have the habit of discursive, roving reason. God…