Status Updates From Selected Writings

“If you believe, without having committed a mortal sin, that you lack both devotion and serious intent and that, not having devotion or serious intent, you do not have God, and if you then grieve over this, this itself becomes your devotion and serious intent.”

Gleaning a lot of beautiful things from Eckhart concerning a life lived in union with God. Some of this is indeed tough to truly grasp as I think Eckhart is expressing things that are generally beyond words, but if you have glimpsed the beauty of Christ and Him in you, much of Eckhart will sound familiar to you.