Meister Eckhart Quotes

Meister Eckhart (29)

Birth:	1260
Death:	1327
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher, Theologian

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• The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

  Meister Eckhart

  Topics in God, Love

• Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

  Meister Eckhart

  Topics in Truth

• Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

  Meister Eckhart

  Topics in Truth

• “God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.”

  Meister Eckhart

  Topics in God

  Tags in Walk, Gone, Home

• You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

  Meister Eckhart

• Words derive their power from the original word.

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• When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

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• What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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• What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

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• We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

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• Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

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• To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

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• There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

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• The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

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• The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

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• The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

  Meister Eckhart

• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

• The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

  Meister Eckhart

• One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

  Meister Eckhart

• Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

  Meister Eckhart