We Walk the Path Together Quotes

“Everything is grace; everything is a gift.”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“Creation, for Eckhart, is filled both with God and exists in God. Its “mission” is to point beyond itself to God.”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“In the words of Meister Eckhart, “Cease to be this or that, and to have this and that, then you are all things and have all things, and so, being neither here nor there, you are everywhere…you are everything…what remains is nothing but God.”40 In the end, says St. Paul, we become one with the risen, cosmic body of Christ, “the fullness of the one who fills all in all” (Eph. 1:23).”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“For Eckhart, then, there is only one Word of God (“God spoke once”) that resounds in every atom of the universe (“I heard two”).”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“Using St. Paul's image of the earthen vessel, we could say that Jesus’ vessel is divine; mine, on the other hand, is earthen and is filled with a divine treasure (2 Cor. 4:7). This is the meaning of grace in Christian life. It has to do with the experience of gratuitousness. Our Godliness is given to us as a free gift.3”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“For Eckhart, this is who God is, and this is who we are in God. If God is love, as the First Letter of John holds (1 John 4:8), then love is God, and our loving is God loving. Through love we are brought into the loving that is God. Says Eckhart, “Likeness and love raise, lead and convey the soul into the prime source of the one, that is, the Father of all things in heaven and earth.”42”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“The medieval Dominican theologian Thomas Aquinas, who greatly influenced Eckhart and all theologians of the era, made the distinction between God as a verb (esse: to be) and the created universe as a noun (ens: being). Commenting on Aquinas, Paul Philibert, OP, says, “God is not a static reality on a shelf. God is active everywhere in the sense that wherever anything exists, God's is the present, active force of its existence.”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“Eckhart says, “Divine love is not taken into us…. Divine love takes us into itself, and we are one with it.”40”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“As one of the documents from a worldwide gathering of Dominicans states, “Dialogue is…a necessary mode of existence in a world of difference.”8 Only through dialogue can we glimpse the beauty and deep insights of the world's spiritual traditions.”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“Obedience liberates me from the tiny world of the ego.”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart