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
letting-go life-is speak
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
letting-go way persons
For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
good-morning new-beginnings good-day
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
grieving soul may
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
self true-self
The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
kissing compassion justice
Compassion is where peace and justice kiss
philosophical worry people
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
god expression made
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
god emptiness empty
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
world may language
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
philosophical soul subtraction
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
grief light darkness
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
excellence soil action
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
life ifs secure
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.