The Sensuous Imagination: Embodying Meister Eckhart

Abstract

The title of my paper calls for some sort of explanation. It is always diffi cult to fi nd a title. My way of preparing a paper is to read and scribble notes for months and then, eventually, leave all the notes aside and just see what appears. When I was asked for a title, the words ‘Embodying Eckhart’ came to mind and the reason why that came to me will be revealed in the course of the paper. To begin our walk around Meister Eckhart, a lovely passage from that mystic, St. Paul, comes to mind. In this St. Paul is writing to friends in Corinth and in the course of his letter, asks them a very embodying question: