"Innering:" Meister Eckhart on the inner person; or why the inner person is needed more today than ever.

The inward path might seem selfish at first in our pained world. But it is also the path which transcends our ego towards Divine grace. It is probably the most needed political act of our times.

Asking AI to render an image of “the inner person.”

“In us there is another human; it is the inner human. The one the holy text calls the new human, a young human, a friend and a noble being.”

— Meister Eckhart

(my translation from BgT 76-140)

Dear dancing monks and weary pilgrims,

I have been trying since two weeks to find words. I promised some Lenten reflections on Meister Eckhart, the German medieval mystic of the inner path and his wisdom teachings regarding the inner person¹. The path Eckhart offers is the inward path of deepening and becoming anew, and of meeting Divine truth at the ground of our soul.

But then the multiple tragedies of world news seeped into my brain and I started wondering what one possibly can say in a pained and suffering world about the process of “innering,” of inward deepening and coming home to one self.