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
powerful prayer perfect
The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
fighting men thinking
A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, am I right or am I wrong? One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.
ego way cost
To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.
soul spirituality eternity
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
god growing-up hard-work
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
religion stones woods
.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.
work sleep calling
The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify; but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other.
heart thinking delight
Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
letting-go men long-ago
Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'
love spiritual compassion
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
giving birth awareness
Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
eternity thee ready
God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready
action saved
It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
spiritual simple people
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.