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
prayer giving people
Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.
humility enemy earth
By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.
break-through numbers spirit
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
creatures
God is equally near in all creatures.
spring men selfishness
Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
symbols
Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
stones
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
source pure
Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.
fighting would-be valor
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
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.
simple firsts spirituality
To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.
shining taste divine
Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.
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.
spirituality
God is at his greatest when I am at my least.