Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim O.P., commonly known as Meister Eckhart , was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryGermany
new-beginnings magic something-new
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
book animal word-of-god
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.
creatures
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.
laughing scripture done
My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
moving causes increase
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.
father order evil
Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.
spiritual silence universe
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
giving-up honor half
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 to closely to disown themselves.
light
As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
beauty mean grace
Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
thinking people shining
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.
order long soul
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
god you-like-it knows
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
speak
God is the word that speaks itself.