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The German Sermons

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Eckhart's vernacular sermons, preached to ordinary listeners and nuns, where his boldest thought lives: the uncreated spark in the ground of the soul, the birth of God within, and a detachment so complete it wills nothing, not even God. Tried for heresy, they were never forgotten.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. Whoever is detached and has let go of all things, to him God is bound to give Himself in return.

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