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
inspirational life thank-you
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
important sitting hours
The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.
world may language
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
country home
God is at home. We are in the far country.
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.
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.
lying creating long
What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.
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.
work sleep calling
The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify; but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other.
existence presence-of-god depends
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
mind barriers objects
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
reality essence shells
If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
God is not good, or else he could do better.
self knowing consciousness
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.