Lunch with the Mystics: Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

 

While incontestably a mystic, Meister Eckhart, “from whom God hid nothing,” was also very much a man of the world. A Provincial of the Dominican order in the 14^th century, his was a very active life as both an administrator and an exceedingly popular preacher. His essential conviction was that there is at the heart of the human soul an essential unity of the divine and the human – in each person there lies a “little spark” of God. The union with God that Eckhart proclaimed lay in pursuing an awakening – a “breakthrough” – in which one sees creation as God sees it, indeed, in which one would see with God’s own eyes! To Eckhart’s mind such a breakthrough is not only the potential, but the call, of every person, however busy they might be!