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 lying men
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
recovery heaven silence
There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.
god process ritual
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
creatures
In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.
cutting
Nobody at any time is cut off from God.
source made
Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.
strong solitude mind
One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.
order long soul
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
suffering
Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.
spiritual silence universe
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
giving-up honor half
There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.
father order evil
Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.
laughing scripture done
My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
spiritual changed spiritual-food
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.