“The most important
hour is always the present one; always the most important person is who is
facing you; always the most important deed is love."
-Meister Eckhart
MeisterEckhart was not a saint but a wonderful German mystic and theologian. He was accused of
heresy during his lifetime and just when he was on his way to Avignon—it was
during the Papal relocation from Rome to Avignon—to defend his writings and
preaching, he died. So the accusations stuck for some seven centuries until
Pope John Paul II cleared his name. I only know a little of Meister Eckhart’s
writings, but the little I know seem quite profound. He was a Dominican friar
by the way, which is why I know a little about him. He was at the forefront of
what became the German mystics of the fourteenth century, who called
themselves the Friends of God.
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