L'amour est fort comme la mort
« Maintenant, tu demanderas : qu'est donc le détachement, pour qu'il cache en lui pareille puissance ? Le vrai détachement signifie que l'esprit se tient impassible dans tout ce qui lui arrive, que ce soit agréable ou douloureux, un honneur ou une honte, comme une large montagne se tient impassible sous un vent léger. »
Une méditation lumineuse, une parole vivante conviant à l'apaisement et à la contemplation.
Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title Magister in theologia he obtained in Paris. Coming into prominence during the decadent Avignon Papacy and a time of increased tensions between the Franciscans and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Preacher Friars, he was brought up on charges later in life before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition. Tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII, his "Defence" is famous for his reasoned arguments to all challenged articles of his writing and his refutation of heretical intent. He purportedly died before his verdict was received, although no record of his death or burial site has ever been discovered.
Meister Eckhart is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as "Johannes Eckhart", although Eckhart was his given name and von Hochheim was his surname.
"Perhaps no mystic in the history of Christianity has been more influential and more controversial than the Dominican Meister Eckart. Few, if any, mystics have been as challenging to modern day readers and as resistant to agreed-upon interpretation."
—Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart... Show more