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
god soul capacity
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
lying father bears
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
ignorance knowing transformed
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
peace real heaven
Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.
nature track trying
Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.
god men purpose
The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
suffering firsts remember
Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.
soul common
There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.
heart want way
A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.
life matter way
There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.
faith gone-away giving
To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.
heart world needs
I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
simple light spy
Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.
heart empty capacity
For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.