#meister-eckhart — Public Fediverse posts

Perhaps spirituality is not only about finding something beyond ourselves. Perhaps it also means learning to see ourselves, others, and existence without the walls we unconsciously build. What changes when the observer feels connected to what is observed? #Spirituality #AncientWisdom #Mindfulness #InnerPeace #CollectiveWellbeing #SelfAwareness #MeisterEckhart #Philosophy #Mysticism #HumanConnection #Peace #ConsciousLiving
https://spiritulality.stayingalive.in/inspiring-harmony/the-eye-that-sees-both-ways.html

#MeisterEckhart: "Everything praises God. Darkness, privations, defects, evil too praise & bless God.” How?
Evil calls to our capacity for courage, love, forgiveness & discernment; it calls us into community & struggle so good, beauty & justice return & Christ overcomes Antichrist. https://bit.ly/4yq4dk7

#MeisterEckhart: "Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world...or by turning solitary & going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things & find God there." bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "God will be born in the just person just as the just person is born into God. For the just person, to act justly is to live...#Compassion means #justice; Compassion is where peace & justice kiss." https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "All works are surely dead if anything from the outside compels you to work...if your works are to live, then God must move you...from the innermost reaches of the soul...There is your life & there alone you live & all your works live." https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. And the outward work can never be great if the inward work is puny or of little worth. [Great inward] work receives & draws all its being...from & in the heart of God." https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "We are fellow helpers w/ God, co-creators in everything we do. When Word & work are returned to their source & origin, then all work is accomplished divinely in God. And there too the soul loses itself in a wonderful enchantment."
#Divinity is integral to our work." https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "You ask me what the human #soul is? No human science can ever fathom what the soul is in its depth. What the soul is in its ground, no one knows. But this we do know: The soul is where God works #compassion." bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "All gifts of nature & of grace have been given to us on loan...Their ownership is not ours, but God's...Treat all things as if they were loaned to you w/o any ownership, whether body or soul, sense or strength, goods or honors, friends or relations, house or hall..." bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me."
#Compassion is about our #interconnectivity; acting out of connection, not #competition or ego projection. We celebrate, struggle to heal, share solidarity, make justice happen together. https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me."
#Compassion is about our #interconnectivity; acting out of connection, not #competition or ego projection. We celebrate, struggle to heal, share solidarity, make justice happen together. https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "The just person lives in God & God in [them]. Thus God will be born in this just person & the just person is born into God; & therefore God will be born thru every virtue of the just person & will rejoice thru every virtue of the just person." https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "Ppl shd stand empty. Followng the way of my unborn being I have always been, am now, & shall remain eternally. What I am by my [temporal] birth is destined to die..for it is mortal...In my [eternal] birth all things were born, & I was cause of myself & of all things. https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "God neither heeds nor needs vigils, fasting, prayer, & all forms of #mortification in contrast to repose. God needs nothing more than for us to offer a #quietheart. Then he accomplishes in the soul such...divine deeds that no creature can...add to them." https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "With the same enjoyment with which God enjoys the Godself, God enjoys all creatures, not as creatures, but as God. In the same enjoyment in which God enjoys the Godself, God enjoys all things." https://bit.ly/453ossb
#BreathOfGaia #JosephineWall

#MeisterEckhart: "The most beautiful thing a person can say about God would be...to remain silent from the wisdom of an inner wealth. So, be silent & quit flapping your gums about God."
Know the limits of language & human understanding: to experience #Godhead is to be bathed in #mystery. https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "Love God as God is: a not-mind, a not-person, a not-image. Love God as God is a pure, clear One who is separate from all twoness." No Other. No separateness. No distance. All-present. https://bit.ly/453ossb
Image: Basmala, Masjid portal, the name of The One, enshrined. Wikimedia.

#MeisterEckhart: "God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction"..."God is at home. It is we who have gone out for a walk."
#LettingGo leads to God experience. Breathe in, breathe out: breathing out is the letting go.
https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "One should love God mindlessly...yr soul ought to be w/o mind or mental activities or images or representations. Bare yr soul of all mind & stay there w/o mind." Your soul is bigger than yr mind, more than what we think about: our thoughts & all we don't think about. https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "God's exit is her entrance."
The death of a loved one, a relationship, a dream: these are endings, but the hollow spaces left behind are openings, too.
Can you trust that when God in one form leaves, God in another form shows up? https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "I pray God to rid me of God." We often make God over into our image, and this is the "God" Eckhart wants removed, praying for forgiveness & help moving beyond human projections of God to the real thing. https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "All paths lead to God...God is on them all ...for the person who knows w/ transformed knowledge."
Humans argue, even go to war over whose path to God is correct. Eckhart: Slow down. Breathe. Don't judge. Take your path & let others take theirs. They all lead to God. bit.ly/453ossb

How We Begin: A Reflection on Reading, Writing, and the Shape of a Day

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
Meister Eckhart

I begin my day quietly. There is no rush to it, no immediate reaching for the world beyond the window. The first thing I do is make a cup of coffee. It is a small ritual, but it matters. The warmth, the familiar movement, the pause signals that the day has begun.

I sit with that cup for a few moments before anything else. No screens. No noise. Just the simple act of being present. After that, I take a few minutes for stillness. Not a formal meditation, just a moment to settle into the day. Some mornings are calm, others less so, but the practice itself remains.

Then I turn to the day ahead. I create a schedule. Not rigid, but intentional. I make sure there is space for a few things that matter to me. Reading, connection, writing. These are not tasks to complete, but parts of the day I want to live inside.

There was a time when my days were arranged before I even stepped into them. Meetings, responsibilities, expectations, all set in place. There was very little room to decide how the day would unfold. Now, that has changed. Now, I am the director of my days.

This morning, I began with a poem. It was from a small book titled A Girl in the City by Helen Hoyt, sent to me by her granddaughter. The book carries a sense of care, of something preserved and passed forward. When I open it, I am aware that I am not just reading words. I am stepping into a voice that has travelled through time to meet this morning.

The poem is called Triumph:

Triumph, dear triumph,
Splendor of certainty and exaltation—
I have felt you in little moments,
Moments of nothingness, alone,
More than in great times of applause.
Walking or dancing,
Suddenly you come
And lift up my hands as if they would reach the stars;
I could shake the stars and the world for sheer merriment of power—
I will run laughing and shouting with you
Through all the streets of the world, triumph.

It was a good way to begin.

Even on busy days, I make time for reading. A few lines are enough. They have a way of settling into the day, returning when needed, shaping how I move through what follows.

Connection comes next. A message, a conversation, a shared moment. These are not interruptions. They are part of the day’s fabric.

And writing, when it comes, grows out of all of this. No two mornings are exactly the same. But the rituals remain. Coffee. A moment of stillness. A plan for the day. A page to read. These are small things, easily overlooked. Yet they shape the way the day unfolds. I have come to see that how we begin matters.

Not in a grand way, but in the quiet accumulation of small, intentional acts. A day does not need to be controlled to be meaningful. It only needs to be entered with care.

Rebecca

#MechtildOfMagdeburg: "The day of my #spiritualawakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things."
#MeisterEckhart calls this #breakthrough the realization that "I and God are one."
#PanENtheism https://bit.ly/453ossb

Philosophical Currents Intersected with Medieval Thought

Academic series re-examines Meister Eckhart's philosophy and mysticism, showing how his ideas bridge scholasticism and inner spiritual journeys.

#MeisterEckhart, #MedievalPhilosophy, #Mysticism, #AcademicStudy, #WesternThought

https://newsletter.tf/meister-eckhart-ideas-academic-series-medieval-mysticism/

A new academic series is looking at Meister Eckhart's ideas, which were controversial in the 1300s but are now seen as important for understanding Western thought.

#MeisterEckhart, #MedievalPhilosophy, #Mysticism, #AcademicStudy, #WesternThought
https://newsletter.tf/meister-eckhart-ideas-academic-series-medieval-mysticism/

#MeisterEckhart: "If the only #prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you," that would suffice.
#Gratitude is at the heart of the authentic spiritual experience: prayer is an act not of begging or beseeching or wanting or needing, but of #thanking. bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: " #Relation is the essence of everything that exists."
Things are not just things. There is no thing in and of itself, separately defined; the essence of thingness is not thingness -- it is #relationship. bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "We sink eternally from #lettinggo to letting go into God."
Life is a series of letting-go moments: from when we leave the womb - letting go the comfort of 9 months in our mother's belly - to the hour of our death & final leave-taking. Best to develop the skill now! https://bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: "Isness is God."
Everything that exists reveals to us something about God: in its beauty or fierceness; its shape, order, or wildness; its simplicity or complexity. To say that isness is God is to see God everywhere& in everything at its innermost core. bit.ly/453ossb

#MeisterEckhart: " #God is voluptuous & delicious."
We may forget the Maker of pleasure must know something about pleasure. The voluptuousness of an orange, a rose, a sunset, beautiful music, delicious food, the human body, the symphony of senses is known by the maker of all. https://bit.ly/453ossb

#ThomasAquinas: " #Christ teaches the #dignity of #human nature ...and the full participation in #Divinity which is truly humanity's #happiness & the goal of human life." #MeisterEckhart: indeed the #nobility or #royalty of #ordinary people was at the heart of #Jesus' teaching. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Heute waren mal wieder 2 Menschen von weit her (Chile) bei uns. Sie waren extra nach #Erfurt gekommen, um die Kirche von Meister Eckhart zu sehen.

Das haben wir öfter. Trotzdem spielt diese große Tradition für die Stadt nur eine sehr untergeordnete Rolle. 😠 Wir arbeiten dran.

#MeisterEckhart

#MeisterEckhart: "If I were to lead people, they would never follow me with pleasure if they did not receive equality with me. For a movement or a deed is never acomplished with pleasure in the absence of equality." #wenotme #servantleader
https://www.matthewfox.org/books/meister-eckhart-a-mystic-warrior-for-our-time

If we are #brothers&sisters in 1 God, then we are all #equals. This is the springboard for #compassion... All #love demands equality. #MeisterEckhart: "Love will never be anything else than there where #equality & #unity are." #Peace & tranquility among peoples demand their equality. https://bit.ly/45IpYjA

“The word was made flesh & dwelt among us” summarizes the entire #Christmas story...We know “the birth of all things from this Ground, their coming into being in the Word.” Thus #MeisterEckhart: “Every creature is a word of God and a book about God.” Every creature is another #Christ. https://bit.ly/4qpvJtV

#Christ is #God become #human in time & history in #Jesus but also in all of us. #MeisterEckhart's question, "What good is it to me if #Mary gave birth to the #SonOfGod & I do not do the same?" carries on this same understanding of the omnipresence of Christ in time & history.
Image: "The Mother from #Gaza" by Daniel Arrhakis on Flickr.
https://www.matthewfox.org/books/meister-eckhart-a-mystic-warrior-for-our-time

“The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.”

„Daz ouge, da inne ich got sihe, daz ist daz selbe ouge, da inne mich got sihet; min ouge und gotes ouge daz ist ein ouge und ein gesiht und ein bekennen und ein minnen.“

#MeisterEckhart #Mysticism #Contemplation #Nonduality #Consciousness #Philosophy #Theology #MiddleHighGerman #Medieval

Meister Eckhart on contemplation vs action:

"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."

Short read on why our addiction to productivity might be planting the wrong seeds.

🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/terraphilosophica/p/the-harvest-depends-on-what-you-plant?r=5lwmoo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false #Philosophy #MeisterEckhart #Contemplation #Productivity #TerraPhilosophica #Theology #Ethics

Commentary on Gospel of Thomas Saying 27: True Sabbath Rest: The Heavenly Repose of Meditation @ Medium: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/commentary-on-gospel-of-thomas-saying-27-true-sabbath-rest-the-heavenly-repose-of-meditation-115f561e62b8

@ Blog: https://santmatradhasoami.blogspot.com/2025/09/commentary-on-gospel-of-thomas-saying.html

#GospelOfThomas #MeisterEckhart #Sabbath #Meditation #Spirituality #gnosis #gnosticism #repose

Wenn ihr einen kleinen Eindruck vor der #Video-Installation "Intervals/Unterbrechungen" haben wollt, die gerade in der Predigerkirche #Erfurt zu sehen ist, schaut hier auf Peertube: https://peertube.katholisch.social/w/uPctJ5apS8TR6FnW8hRvcu

Taery Kim und Q Schim aus #Korea haben sie für unsere #MeisterEckhart Tage gemacht.

#art #Kunst

Die #meistereckhart Tage #Erfurt gehen ihrem Ende entgegen. Wir hatten tolle Veranstaltungen. Und heute Abend kommt das letzte Highlight.

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."

– Meister Eckhart

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Eckhart #MeisterEckhart

#MeisterEckhart: If we are brothers & sisters in 1 God, then we are all #equals. Here lies the springboard for #compassion: to love, esteem, & consider all people like yourself, what happens to another, bad or good, should be as if it happened to you. bit.ly/45IpYjA

So muss das: in der Stadt-#Bibliothek #Erfurt hängt unser Plakat für die #MeisterEckhart-Tage.

Wir sind in den letzten Vorbereitungen: Zehn Veranstaltungen für den größten Sohn Erfurts, den hier kaum jemand kennt.

#Weisheit
#MeisterEckhart

Bis gestern Abend noch:
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für die #MeisterEckhart Tage, Vorbereitung der GKR-Wahlen, #Konfi, Organisation für die Neubesetzung der Sekretariatsstelle, Kinder-Andacht und vieles mehr...

Heute schon:
Rucksack gepackt und ab in den Urlaub! Ich freu mich. Mein nächster Arbeitstag ist der 24.07. bis dahin wird es wohl hier auf unserem Mastodon-Account recht still werden.

#WasPfarrerSoMachen

Das Programm für die #MeisterEckhart-Tage #Erfurt steht jetzt auch hier:
https://www.meister-eckhart-erfurt.de/aktuelles/meister-eckhart-tage-erfurt-2025

10 Veranstaltungen und ein Kunstwerk an vier Tagen.

Ich erreiche unseren Grafiker nicht. Also schnell ein Plakat zu den #MeisterEckhart-Tagen #Erfurt im September selbst gebaut...
Große Ereignisse werfen Ihre Schatten voraus.

"Wer nichts als die Kreaturen erkennen würde, der müßte niemals an eine Predigt denken, denn eine jegliche Kreatur ist Gottes voll und ist ein Buch."
Meister Eckhart: Vom Seelengrund. Reclam 2023, S. 13

#Religion #Spiritualität #Wissenschaft #Erkenntnistheorie #Philosophie #Christentum #Mystik #MeisterEckhart https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/das-schrumpfen-der-freiheit-poppers-kreuz-der-wahrheit-im-hossa-talk-184/

#ThomasAquinas: " #Christ teaches the #dignity of #human nature ...and the full participation in #Divinity which is truly humanity's #happiness & the goal of human life." #MeisterEckhart: indeed the #nobility or #royalty of #ordinary people was at the heart of #Jesus' teaching. https://bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Morgen beginnt der #Advent. Ich habe mir vorgenommen, diese Zeit der Ruhe zu nutzen, um jeden Morgen ca. eine Stunde der geistlichen Lektüre zu widmen: #meistereckhart, #jacobböhme, #Bibel. Mal sehen, was mir sonst so begegnet.

Wie schon im letzten Jahr, soll das Niederschlag in einem Blog hier im Fediverse finden. Folgt einfach
@advent-gedanken
Oder im Feed-Reader: https://text.tchncs.de/advent-gedanken/feed

Gern retröt!

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."

– Meister Eckhart

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Eckhart #MeisterEckhart

Da hat jemand einen Save-the-Date Flyer für die #MeisterEckhart Tage 2025 für die Gäste vom #Katholikentag in unsere Kirche gelegt. 😃

Unser Kinderbuch zu #meistereckhart ist gerade erschienen. Unterwegs in seiner Gedankenwelt mit der Maus Bartholomäus von Hochheim... 🐭

Jetzt gerade spricht Laurent Jouvet bei uns über das Wesentliche bei #meistereckhart.

#Erfurt #FediKirche

Bei #feinschwarz ist ein Artikel von Dietmar Mieth über Marguerite Porète erschienen. Eine gute, knappe Zusammenfassung der Gedanken der Zeitgenossin von #MeisterEckhart.

https://www.feinschwarz.net/marguerite-poretes-widerstand/

Laurent Jouvet wird am 22.02. bei uns einen Vortrag über "Das Wesentliche" bei #MeisterEckhart halten. 19:30 Uhr geht's los. Der Eintritt ist frei.
Auch für das Gregorianik-Seminar in der Karwoche gibt es noch freie Plätze.

It‘s four years now since #MatthewFox visited Erfurt | He is cordially invited again to celebrate contemplation with the community in the #MeisterEckhart - Capital | @RevDrMatthewFox |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7W9gifsCzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A35znEGHc9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS4ar5Nk3bI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt85J9ul1DQ

@achimreinke @RuthInkognito

Allerdings hat mir im letzten Jahrzehnt, in dem ich hier wohne, noch niemand die Stelle nennen können, wo das Zitat herstammt. Ich bin also sehr vorsichtig mit der Behauptung, es sei wirklich von #meistereckhart.

Oder kann hier jemand helfen?