Meister Eckhart
Quotes
A medieval German mystic and theologian known for his deep reflections on the nature of God, being, and the soul. He taught that the divine essence resides within each person and can be directly realized through detachment and inner stillness. His sermons and writings, though controversial in his time, have since inspired seekers of spiritual truth and influenced modern contemplative practices.
Meister Eckhart
Quotes
A medieval German mystic and theologian known for his deep reflections on the nature of God, being, and the soul. He taught that the divine essence resides within each person and can be directly realized through detachment and inner stillness. His sermons and writings, though controversial in his time, have since inspired seekers of spiritual truth and influenced modern contemplative practices.
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
Every creature is a word of God.
My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.
The more we have the less we own.
No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.
If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.
I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
