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.
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.
We must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted, and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.
I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.
I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends, and honors, but it touches them too closely to disown themselves.
Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However sacred...
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.
To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process.
God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall...everything.
I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
