' Eternal life '...

"If we are to know God, it must be without the slightest means.

When we do see God in His light,

it happens in private,

safe from the slightest intrusion of creaturely things.

Then we have immediate knowledge of eternal life."




Meister Eckhart
in Franz Pfeiffer
Meister Eckhart
(Leipzig, 1857)
Translated by C. de B. Evans
London: John M. Watkins, 1956, vol. 1, p. 63