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.
What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive.
All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself… and let God be God in you.
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.
Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.
Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.
God is equally near in all creatures.
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
Words derive their power from the original word.
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.
To the quiet mind all things are possible.
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.
Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.
