MEISTER ECKHART A Mystic Warrior for Our Times
by Matthew Fox
Meister Eckhart was a late-thirteenth- and early-fourteenth-century preacher and mystic, yet like Rumi and Hafiz, he remains relevant today. He speaks to so many and touches people’s hearts.Eckhart leads us to the land of the mystic-warrior, to the land where our action flows from being or nonaction, from contemplation, from love — from the Cataphatic Divinity.
Meister Eckhart on Mindful Meditation
by Matthew Fox
How do we get to that silence, to that Source of all things? Meister Eckhart calls on the story of Jacob in Genesis (28:20): “‘Jacob the patriarch came to a certain place and wanted to rest in the evening, when the sun had gone down.’…He says: ‘To a place’; he does not name it. The place is God, the place and position of all things and is the natural place of all creatures.
Meister Eckhart on Tasting God
by Matthew Fox
The word “taste” in both Hebrew and Latin comes from the word for wisdom. Eckhart tells this story: “I was once asked why good people feel so happy with God and are so eager to serve Him. I replied by saying it was because they had tasted God, and it would be strange indeed if the soul that had once tasted and tried God could taste anything else.”
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