Quote from The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart

The Complete Works of Meister Eckhart (revised)

Translated by Maurice O'C Walshe, with a new forward by Bernard McGinn

Crossroad Publishing Co, New York, New York     © 2009      640 pp.

Quote from Sermon 96:  

"You should love God apart from loveworthiness: that is not because He is worthy of love, for God is not loveworthy, He is above all love and loveworthiness.

'Then how should I love God?'

-- You should love God nonspiritually: that is to say the soul should be de-spirited, stripped of spiritual dress. For as long as the soul is in spirit form, she has images; as long as she has images, she has means; as long as she has means, she has not unity or simplicity, and as long as she has not simplicity she has never rightly loved God as He is God, as He is spirit, as He is person and as He is image -- all that must go.

'Well, how should I love Him?'

-- You should love him as He is: a non-God, a non-person, a non-image; rather as He is a sheer pure limpid One, detached from all duality. 

And in that One may we eternally sink from nothingness to nothingness."  (pp. 464-465)

-- submitted by Jennifer Knight

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