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
german-philosopher life prayer
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
firmly fixed god impression inner learn solitude strong wherever
You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed in your mind.
laughter father son
The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
belief german-philosopher god gone
God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.
divine god image possesses shines taste whoever
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.
god looks chance
Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.
prayer powerful self
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
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
kissing compassion justice
Compassion is where peace and justice kiss
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.
rivers dams
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
god creation stillness
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.