Meister Eckhart on The Spark of Soul
by Matthew Fox
Eckhart honors intuition as the highest of all faculties, calling it “the spark of the soul,” a term that derives both from Sufi and from Jewish mysticism of the Middle Ages. It implies wisdom — and is that not the direction education needs to move in? Away from knowledge factories and toward wisdom schools? Wisdom incorporates heart and head, body and feeling, intuition and values.
Meister Eckhart on Solitude
by Matthew Fox
One does not have to flee the world to learn and practice inner solitude. Eckhart says, “This cannot be learned by running away, by fleeing into the desert away from external things; a person must learn to acquire an inner solitude, wherever and with whomsoever one may be. One must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to make the divine image grow in oneself in an essential way.
Meister Eckhart on Letting Go
by Matthew Fox
God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.” Subtraction and letting go leads us to the Divine depths. When we can let go and “sink into God,” amazing things happen between God and us. I advise you to let your own ‘being you’ sink into and flow away into God’s ‘being God.