Meditations with Meister Eckhart

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Meister Eckhart was 13th-century mystic, prophet, feminist, declared heretic and early advocate of creation-centred spirituality. This tradition affirms humanity's potential to act divinely and it embraces life - living and dying, growing old and sinning, groaning and celebrating - as the creative energy of God in motion. For Eckhart to be spiritual is to be awake and alive; creation itself was for him the primary sacrament that begins from the spring of life or the heart. Eckhart's pathway and that of the creation tradition is a simple way. It demands no gurus, no fanciful methods, no protracted exercises or retreats. This is why he called it a 'wayless' way that is available to everyone and why he points out that the person who has found this way needs no other.

Matthew Fox is the author of fifteen books, including Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality in New Translation; Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality; and The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. He is Founding Director of the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California where he also makes his home.