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
prayer giving people
Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.
soul united remains
If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.
promise rewards commandments
This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
loss sorrow
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
pain stills rest-and-peace
A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
memories finding-love soul
Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
men reason lost
No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.
real believe men
The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith....
wisdom fun men
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.
mind firsts may
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
life love-is roots
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.
angel soul knows
When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.
father angel son
The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like God. And it may well be true, for the soul at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. For this reason the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived.
simple firsts spirituality
To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.