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
strong love-is soul
Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.
might done lord
What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.
faith lying giving
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
heart doors needs
You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
philosophical woods stones
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
long free-spirit god-love
Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.
love attachment experience-love
When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
spiritual air sun
...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
essence community relation
Relation is the essence of everything that exists.
letting-go noble truth-is
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
long spirituality pure
As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.
progress may spirituality
You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.
letting-go asks
All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you
effort use found
Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.