Meditations with Meister Eckhart

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Pages: 132
Book Size: 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN-13: 9780939680047
Imprint: Bear & Company
On Sale Date: June 1, 1983
Format: Paperback Book

Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century mystic and prophet, a declared heretic, and an early advocate of creation spirituality. This book of meditations reveals his simple path which demanded no gurus, no fanciful methods, no protracted exercises or retreats. He called it a “wayless way,” adding that the person “who has found this way needs no other.”

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Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century mystic, prophet, feminist, declared heretic, and an early advocate of creation-centered spirituality. This tradition affirms humanity’s potential to act divinely, and it embraces life--living and dying, growing old and sinning, groaning and celebrating--as the creative energy of God in motion. For Eckhart, to be spiritual is to be awake and alive; creation itself was for him the primary sacrament that begins from “the spring of life” or the heart.

Eckhart’s pathway and that of the creation tradition is a simple way. It demands no gurus, no fanciful methods, no protracted exercises or retreats. This is why he called it a “wayless way” that is available to everyone, and why he points out that the person “who has found this way needs no other.”

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Matthew Fox is the author of fifteen books, including Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart’s Creation Spirituality in New Translation; Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality; and The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. He is Founding Director of the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California where he also makes his home.

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SPIRITUALITY / MYSTICISM

Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century mystic, prophet, feminist, declared heretic, and an early advocate of creation-centered spirituality. This tradition affirms humanity’s potential to act divinely, and it embraces life--living and dying, growing old and sinning, groaning and celebrating--as the creative energy of God in motion. For Eckhart, to be spiritual is to be awake and alive; creation itself was for him the primary sacrament that begins from “the spring of life” or the heart.

Eckhart’s pathway and that of the creation tradition is a simple way. It demands no gurus, no fanciful methods, no protracted exercises or retreats. This is why he called it a “wayless way” that is available to everyone, and why he points out that the person “who has found this way needs no other.”

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MATTHEW FOX is the author of fifteen books, including Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart’s Creation Spirituality in New Translation; Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality; and The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. He is Founding Director of the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California where he also makes his home.