Transcript Meister Eckhart

Meister Eckhart
Interior Freedom

Freedom for Eckhart
is not the ability to
change from one
horse to another on
a merry-go-round,
but to get off the
merry-go-round!
The Soul

Eckhart says that
human genius can
never discover what
the soul is in its
ground. To discover
what the soul is
requires
supernatural
understanding.
Personality and Essence

The mind that asks
the great questions
is not the mind that
can understand, let
alone answer, these
questions.
The Birth
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“Hence we should
never rest until we
become that which
we eternally have
been in Christ the
Word.”
Ignorance to Awareness
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“The all-important
transition from
darkness to light
was for Eckhart the
passage from
ignorance to
awareness of God’s
constant presence.”
The Birth in the Soul

“What does it avail
me that this birth is
always happening, if
it does not happen
in me?”
Freedom and Emptiness

This “freedom and
emptiness” might be
the Christian version
of the Buddhist “noself.”
Summary

Just as the Grand
Canyon is
continually born in
the emptiness of its
valley, so the Word
of God is continually
born in the soul that
is empty.