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
I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
grieving soul may
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
years yesterday tomorrow
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
life moving-on business
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
philosophical yesterday lasts
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
god profit seeking
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
people eternal
People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
cutting knowing-who-you-are drawing
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
god emptiness empty
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
mother peace son
What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
soul doe subtraction
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
self true-self
The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
laughter father son
The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.