Meister Eckhart's Book of Darkness & Light
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- ISBN 9781642970456
- Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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“Within each of us is a divine treasure, and if we hope to discover it, we need to go deep into the heart of who we are.” —Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart has been a huge figure in spirituality for more than eight hundred years—spiritual leaders such as Eckhart Tolle, Richard Rohr, and Matthew Fox have all credited Eckhart as being an important influence on their thought.
This book of Meister Eckhart meditations is for people seeking the “wayless way.” It is not for those looking for a simple path. These fresh, stunning renderings of Eckhart’s writings in poetic form bring life to one of the great spiritual voices of any age. They reveal what it means to love God and find meaning in darkness. Not darkness in general, but your darkness, because it is the one thing you know something about—without facing your darkness, you’ll never know what it means to desire the light. Only when you are in the darkness, Meister says, do you have even the possibility of seeing the light.
“What Coleman Barks has done for Rumi, Sweeney and Burrows have done for Eckhart—making his insight accessible and his wisdom sing.” —Carl McColman, author of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism and Eternal Heart
“Sweeney and Burrows, in poems that are as elegant as they are scholarly, revoice Meister Eckhart’s grounding and expansive instructions to ‘seek the light that shines / out of the darkness.’” —Pádraig Ó Tuama, poet and host of Poetry Unbound, from On Being Studios
“Within each of us is a divine treasure, and if we hope to discover it, we need to go deep into the heart of who we are.” —Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart has been a huge figure in spirituality for more than eight hundred years—spiritual leaders such as Eckhart Tolle, Richard Rohr, and Matthew Fox have all credited Eckhart as being an important influence on their thought.
This book of Meister Eckhart meditations is for people seeking the “wayless way.” It is not for those looking for a simple path. These fresh, stunning renderings of Eckhart’s writings in poetic form bring life to one of the great spiritual voices of any age. They reveal what it means to love God and find meaning in darkness. Not darkness in general, but your darkness, because it is the one thing you know something about—without facing your darkness, you’ll never know what it means to desire the light. Only when you are in the darkness, Meister says, do you have even the possibility of seeing the light.
“What Coleman Barks has done for Rumi, Sweeney and Burrows have done for Eckhart—making his insight accessible and his wisdom sing.” —Carl McColman, author of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism and Eternal Heart
“Sweeney and Burrows, in poems that are as elegant as they are scholarly, revoice Meister Eckhart’s grounding and expansive instructions to ‘seek the light that shines / out of the darkness.’” —Pádraig Ó Tuama, poet and host of Poetry Unbound, from On Being Studios
Jon M. Sweeney is an award-winning author and independent scholar. Currently, Jon is religion editor at Monkfish Book Publishing, editor of Living City magazine, and book review editor at SpiritualityandPractice.com. He speaks at literary and religious conferences, in churches and synagogues, and at independent bookstores. He is a Catholic married to a rabbi, and their interfaith marriage has been profiled in national media. He has been interviewed by the Dallas Morning News and The Irish Catholic, on radio with NPR and the BBC, and on television for CBS Saturday Morning, as well as NBC’s The Morning Blend and CBS Sunday Morning in Milwaukee.
Jon’s books on Franciscan spirituality have sold a quarter million copies. He’s also author of thirty other books on spirituality, mysticism, biography, and memoir, including Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart, coauthored with Mark S. Burrows (Hampton Roads, 2017); Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practices (St. Martin’s Essentials, 2021); and Sit in the Sun: And Other Lessons in the Spiritual Wisdom of Cats (Broadleaf, 2023). The Pope Who Quit (Doubleday/Image, 2014) has sold 50,000+ copies and was optioned by HBO.
Jon’s books on Franciscan spirituality have sold a quarter million copies. He’s also author of thirty other books on spirituality, mysticism, biography, and memoir, including Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart, coauthored with Mark S. Burrows (Hampton Roads, 2017); Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practices (St. Martin’s Essentials, 2021); and Sit in the Sun: And Other Lessons in the Spiritual Wisdom of Cats (Broadleaf, 2023). The Pope Who Quit (Doubleday/Image, 2014) has sold 50,000+ copies and was optioned by HBO.
