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
love men contemplation
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.
tree divinity pears
The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.
prayer lying men
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
running spiritual solitude
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
spiritual changed spiritual-food
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.
grief light darkness
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
knows
God cannot know himself without me.
suffering
Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.
faith god eye
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
rivers dams
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
god process ritual
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
god looks chance
Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.
shining taste divine
Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.
god growing-up hard-work
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.