Sermons of Meister Eckhart, Counsel 21. Of Zeal

Sermons of Meister Eckhart by Meister Eckhart
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Valuable book for review. I learn something new every time I reread sections or paragraphs. I have his best for me paragraph taped to the top of my bathroom mirror.

Counsel 21. Of Zeal, page 274,
"People ought to learn to be free of their works as they perform them. For a man who has not practiced this, it is hard, learning to attain to a state in which the people around him and the works he performs are no hindrance---and much zeal is needed to achieve this---so that God is present to him and his light shines in him undiminished, whatever the occasion, whatever the environment. For this a lively zeal is needed, and, particularly, two things. One is that a man should have his inwardness well protected, and that is mind be on its guard against the images that surround him outside, keeping them out, never letting them intrude to occupy him and accompany him, never letting them find a home in him. The second is that a man does not allow himself to be weakened or distracted or alienated by any multiplicity, not by his own inward images, whether these be his own imaginings or an exaltation of his perceptions, not be outward images or whatever else it may be that he has present to him. To this he ought to apply and turn all his power."


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