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Light, Life, and Love

Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages

By Meister Eckhart

By Johannes Tauler

By Jan van Ruusbroec

Edited by W. R. Inge

Methuen, London, 1904, Second edition, 1919

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W. R. Inge’s anthology of the German and Flemish mystics of the fourteenth century: Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Ruysbroek and the Theologia Germanica, with a long introduction. The reader gives the selections in full.

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Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler and Jan van Ruusbroec. Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages. Edited by W. R. Inge. Second edition, 1919. Methuen, London, 1904.

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On Silence12 November 2026Every contemplative tradition prizes silence, and not only as the absence of noise. What the traditions teach about the silence of the tongue, the silence of the mind and the silence before the ultimate; why they hold that speech spends a strength which silence gathers; and where silence goes wrong.

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An Introduction to Christian ContemplationA six-week guided path through four classics of Christian contemplation: Brother Lawrence on God in the kitchen, Julian of Norwich on the hazelnut and all being well, Meister Eckhart on the nameless God, and the Theologia Germanica on the self that stands in the way.