Anam Cara

MEISTER ECKHART

“There is a lonely edge to our lives which can only be filled by God.”

As the second millennium drew to a close, I conceived the idea of a series entitled “Millennium Minds.” Who were the “great minds” of the millennium and why? I put that question to a range of contributors and they chose a wide selection of minds—poets, economists, composers, politicians, saints. John O’Donohue chose an obscure medieval mystic…