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
compassion god knows soul works
No-one knows what the soul is.. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.
knowledge ideas soul
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
soul my-soul
For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
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.
memories finding-love soul
Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
angel soul knows
When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.
soul may void
Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
children joy soul
My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.