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
country home
God is at home. We are in the far country.
philosophical soul subtraction
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
god disappointment eye
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
kissing compassion justice
Compassion is where peace and justice kiss
excellence soil action
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
wise wiser
If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.
life ifs secure
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
greater
God is greater than God.
creativity found solutions
Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
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.