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Half-listening to Leonard Cohen while reading about Eckhart's theology of emptiness and freedom is a very confusing experience: it goes together almost too well, to the point that you end up half convinced that Eckhart wrote "Like a Bird on a Wire" or argued that it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken hallelujah.

ETA: If you translated 'There's nothing in the world that's pure enough to be a cure for love' into Middle High German, that definitely does sound like mysticism, albeit more like Mechthild - it's got too many erotic overtones to be Eckhart!