The Art of Meister Eckhart

You are exhausted from adding things to your life that were supposed to make you complete. And the wisest teacher of the last thousand years already told you why!
That is the quiet gift of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German monk whose radical preaching reached shopkeepers and mothers in their own language, got him tried for heresy, and has kept his sermons in circulation for seven hundred years because they say what no one else quite says…

While his contemporaries in the medieval church demanded pious performances, he preached that God wanted your emptiness. While they built rules and rituals, he taught that the divine spark was already inside you. While they told peasants to search for peace in far-away holy places, he said the peace was closer to them than they were to themselves…

His way of being is the sharpest medicine you can take for the specific exhaustion of a modern optimizing life. This gentle, practical guide brings his ancient wisdom into the noisy, overloaded life you are actually living.

Inside this book, you will discover:

+ Gelassenheit, the active practice of setting down the psychological freight you never meant to carry!
+ Emptying the cup, and why you cannot receive what you want until you make room
+ Living without a why, and how the rose blooms simply because it blooms
+ Loosening the rigid concepts that have been caging your actual life
+ The two silent words that can contain an entire spiritual life!
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You will not be asked to become a monk or convert to any religion. Only to walk into your ordinary Wednesday with a lighter backpack, so the striving quiets, the exhaustion lifts, and the completeness you have been chasing turns out to have been present all along!

Stop adding to a self that is already complete. Start uncovering the peace that was there all along!