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Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. God is with you everywhere — in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church.

If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love. Frost, St. Neue Folge, Bd. Goris, W. Summerell eds. Der Streit um die species intelligibilis und eine quaestio aus dem anonymen Sentenzenkommentar in ms.

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III: Stuttgart. The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary, the mystic is marvelously present to them on the only level where he can truly reach them, that is in God. The Eckhart Society is located in England.

This history of Meister Eckhart is found on the Dominican Website. Dominic and St. Francis were friends. Friar Eckhart's writings are read by anyone wishes to lead a deeper life in Christ and the writing we quoted is not heresy. Created with. It is of the very nature of the Divine Word to be hidden in its revelation and revealed in its hiddeness. Learning to be Passive All the same, Eckhart does not consider that it is easy to acquire the state of passivity he describes.

He says elsewhere that it is rare for anybody untrained to reach the stage at which they are proof against disturbance. This needs hard work, and demands especially two things. He stresses that to still the mind one must still the body too. And in another sermon McGinn, , p. Total letting go is the way to gain all things in the God who is the real being of all Walshe, , sermon 6. So stand still and do not waver from your emptiness.

To quote Bernard McGinn , p. Detaching and birthing are not successive stages in a mystical path but two sides of the same coin. But how are we to know that the Divine Word has been born in us? Clearly it is not something that we know we have in the way we know we have the flu. Discerning the birth Well, we will know partly by the way we behave. But we know what has happened mainly from what we are aware has happened to us. Must We have a Leisurely Life? In other words, that it is unlikely that the Divine Word will be born in us if a lot of our time is absorbed in a busy life in the world?

To put it another away: was the mystical tradition of the nine centuries after St Augustine and, for that matter, the predominant mystical tradition of the seven most recent centuries, right in seeing the active life as something basically to be endured and to be escaped from whenever possible? Possessing God in All Things Talking to those young men on another occasion he took a step further.