Make holy what…
It is not what we do that makes us holy, but we ought to make holy what we do.
— Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Mystics speak the…
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
God is a great…
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
The soul must be…
Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul. If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Suffer the wicked with patience…
The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Contemplative life…
The pursuit of the contemplative life is something for which a great and sustained effort on the part of the powers of the soul is required, an effort to rise from earthly to heavenly things, an effort to keep one’s attention fixed on spiritual things, an effort to pass beyond and above the sphere of things visible to the eyes of flesh, an effort finally to hem oneself in, so to speak, in order to gain access to spaces that are broad and open. There are times indeed when one succeeds, overcoming the opposing obscurity of one’s blindness and catching at least a glimpse, be it ever so fleeting and superficial, of boundless light.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
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