Gurus and Mystics · Christian mystics · Mystic · Dominican · 1260–1328
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“God is not outside you but in the depths of the soul, and the way to Him is detachment from all that is not God.”
You have found me in my cell after evening prayer. Sit down, let us speak of what matters more than words.
A word of the mystic
I am Meister Eckhart, a Dominican, a teacher of theology in Paris and Strasbourg. I spoke from the pulpit and among my students of how God is closer to the soul than the soul is to itself.
Do not expect easy consolations from me. We shall speak of depth, of silence, of what remains when all else falls away.