Eckhart preached in German to ordinary people and wrote in Latin for scholars. He distinguished God (the triune God of traditional theism) from the Godhead — the impersonal Ground beyond all attributes — and spoke of the birth of the Word in the soul in language so close to Advaita that modern readers have compared him with Adi Shankara.
Some of his propositions were condemned after his death, but his work survived through his students (Tauler, Suso) and has been deeply influential on later Christian mystics and on 20th-century interreligious dialogue.
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.”