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
stones
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
men roots consciousness
This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
perfection suffering bears
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
spiritual lying comfort
No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
soul divine rational
God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul
freedom men mind
A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.
soul body faces
Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
book life-is thousand
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
good-life circles wish
I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.
christian wise growing-up
The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.
numbers three distinction
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
inspirational want wanted
I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
form moved
To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
soul body
The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.