A major theme in the thoughts of Meister Eckhart is detachment. This post isn’t intended to be a comprehensive review of all of these thoughts, but is rather focused on one passage in particular: Perfect detachment is without regard, without either lowliness or loftiness to creatures; it has no mind to be below nor yet to be above; it is minded to be master of itself, loving none and hating none, having neither likeness nor unlikeness, neither this nor that, to any creature; the only thing it desires to be is to be one and the same. For to be either this or that is to want something. He who is this or that is somebody; but detachment wants altogether nothing. It leaves all things unmolested.
Meister Eckhart on Perfect Detachment
Meister Eckhart on Perfect Detachment
Meister Eckhart on Perfect Detachment
A major theme in the thoughts of Meister Eckhart is detachment. This post isn’t intended to be a comprehensive review of all of these thoughts, but is rather focused on one passage in particular: Perfect detachment is without regard, without either lowliness or loftiness to creatures; it has no mind to be below nor yet to be above; it is minded to be master of itself, loving none and hating none, having neither likeness nor unlikeness, neither this nor that, to any creature; the only thing it desires to be is to be one and the same. For to be either this or that is to want something. He who is this or that is somebody; but detachment wants altogether nothing. It leaves all things unmolested.