By Meister Eckhart
The talks of guideline -- The booklet of divine comfort -- at the noble guy -- chosen German sermons -- chosen Latin sermons Composed in the course of a severe time within the evolution of ecu highbrow lifestyles, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are the most robust medieval makes an attempt to accomplish a synthesis among historic Greek inspiration and the Christian religion. Writing with nice rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart combines the neoplatonic idea of oneness - the concept the final word precept of the universe is unmarried and undivided - together with his Christian trust within the Trinity, and considers the fight to explain an ideal God during the imperfect medium of language. Fusing philosophy and faith with bright originality and metaphysical ardour, those works have intrigued and encouraged philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and past
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He does not mean here love in its first sense, from which he did not wish to be separated even for a moment for the sake of anything in heaven or on earth, but rather the consolation of love. You should know that the friends of God are never without consolation, for their greatest consolation is what God wills for them, whether it be for their comfort or not. II What we should do when God hides himself and we cannot find him. You should know too that a good will cannot fail to find God, although the mind sometimes feels that it misses him and often believes that he has departed.
Why should this not be true also of a good will - incomparably more so, in fact? Truly, with the will I can do all things. I can share the sorrows of all men and women, feed all the poor, perform everyone's actions, and whatever else you can think of. If you do not lack the will to do something, but only the capacity to carry it out, then truly in God's eyes you have done it, and no one can take it away from you or obstruct you even for a moment; for wanting to do something as soon as you can and actually doing it are the same thing in God's eyes.
But what then should they do? First of all, they should renounce themselves, and then they will have renounced all things. Truly, if someone were to renounce a kingdom or the whole world while still holding on to themselves, then they would have renounced nothing at all. And indeed, if someone renounces themselves, then whatever they might keep, whether it be a kingdom or honour or whatever it may be, they will still have renounced all things. St Peter said, 'See, Lord, we have left everything' (Matt 19:27), when he had left nothing more than a mere net and his little boat, and a saint5 comments that whoever willingly renounces what is small, renounces not only this but also everything which worldly people can possess or indeed even desire.