Meister Eckhart's best-remembered works are his highly unusual sermons in the vernacular. Eckhart as a preaching friar attempted to guide his flock, as well as monks and nuns under his jurisdiction, with practical sermons on spiritual/psychological transformation and New Testament metaphorical content related to the creative power inherent in disinterest. This book brings the best of Eckhart's preaching. The central theme of Eckhart's sermons is the presence of God in the individual soul, and the dignity of the soul of the just man.

Eckhart von Hochheim (1260–1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, original name Johannes Eckhart was a German Catholic theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia, now central Germany, in the Holy Roman Empire.