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When Simon met Eckhart
Posted on 19 July 2010, 20:21
When I was asked to write about Meister Eckhart, I hesitated, because all I really wanted to do was meet the great man, and what chance of that? But then something happened.
As a part-time therapist, I’m often struck by how little I know about someone until I meet them. I may have information about them, but until I’ve listened to them reflect on their lives, the chemistry isn’t there and I know almost nothing. So what to do with Eckhart, a 13th century abbot who shockingly put detachment above love in his list of virtues?
The answer came in a moment. I’ve always loved dialogue. I used to write satirical comedy for programmes such as Spitting Image and Weekending. And then, as a therapist I know the power of dialogue to create something which didn’t exist before; the power of two souls meeting. So the idea was born: why not speak with Eckhart?
What happened next? To find out, read the full article When Simon met Eckhart here.
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Off topic, but if you are one of the principals of White Crow Books, could I suggest that we really need modern editions of Andrew Lang’s and Maurice Maeterlinck’s writings on postmortem survival? What I have seen of them is both poetic and profound.
They are likely to be out of copyright.
If you have or can get hard copies, I might be willing to transcribe them into electronic format. Optical character scanning on old books doesn’t work very well.
Rick Darby, Tue 20 Jul, 01:24

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