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.
When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.
Compassion is where peace and justice kiss.
To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.
Nobody at any time is cut off from God.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.
The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.
Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.
Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
