{"id":391,"date":"2017-10-29T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T07:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2017-10-29T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T07:55:30","slug":"meister-eckhart-as-quoted-in-blogs-and-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/391\/meister-eckhart-as-quoted-in-blogs-and-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Meister Eckhart as quoted in blogs and sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great majority of the quotations attributed to him by various web sites, are either wrong, or loose paraphrases. When I encounter an exact\u00a0quote, coming from Eckhart&#8217;s writings intact, I&#8217;m really surprised &#8211; but I have forgotten the last time such an encounter occured! Therefore, I decided to open a new section at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/theology\/eckhart.htm\">Meister Eckhart Site<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/theology\/eckhart-quotes.asp\">characteristic and most\u00a0important sayings of Meister Eckhart<\/a>, translated by me from the German and the Latin\u00a0original (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=meister%20deutschen%20lateinischen&amp;tag=e0bf-20&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Kohlhammer&#8217;s edition<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Recall how important the sayings of the Church\u00a0Fathers are. They are\u00a0hints\u00a0about a way each of us personally discovers anew, therefore, they seem easy but they are difficult because they expect or demand\u00a0a personal preparation. This is why I consider most important the quotes-problem of Meister Eckhart. It&#8217;s a shame, because what Meister Eckhart really said can be a great spiritual companion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cf.<\/em> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/theology\/eckhart.htm\">The Meister Eckhart Site<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/theology\/eckhart-quotes.asp\">Eckhart Genuine\u00a0Quotes<\/a> \u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/notebook\/patristic_f.htm\">Roots of Asceticism<\/a>\u00a0 *\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/greek-word.asp\">Bilingual Anthology of the Greek Fathers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great majority of the quotations attributed to him by various web sites, are either wrong, or loose paraphrases. When I encounter an exact\u00a0quote, coming from Eckhart&#8217;s writings intact, I&#8217;m really surprised &#8211; but I have forgotten the last time such an encounter occured! Therefore, I decided to open a new section at the Meister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[731,1607,1765,55,1763,208,1764,1762,1761],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","tag-asceticism","tag-eckhart","tag-eckhart-quotes","tag-faith","tag-kohlhammer","tag-meister-eckhart","tag-quotes","tag-sayings","tag-spiritual-companion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}