Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) is arguably the greatest Christian mystic of all time, and certainly the greatest exponent of the via negativa, the path of negation or absolutely imageless transcendence. But Eckhart expresses this spiritual path in the most colorful and daring ways of anyone in the history of Christianity. This collection offers selections from his sermons that reveal just how extraordinary he was and open a way into the tradition he exemplifies.