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Meister Eckhart (Philosopher)

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
— Meister Eckhart god
To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all ones mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, 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.
— Meister Eckhart love
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
— Meister Eckhart life
As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.
— Meister Eckhart
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and Gods eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
— Meister Eckhart love
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice.
— Meister Eckhart life
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, hank you, that would suffice.
— Meister Eckhart life
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
— Meister Eckhart true
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action
— Meister Eckhart action
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.
— Meister Eckhart god
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we dont know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an oxs or bears, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
— Meister Eckhart art
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
— Meister Eckhart life
[...] Cause in eternity theres no yesterday or tomorrow, but only Now.
— Meister Eckhart eternity
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
— Meister Eckhart war
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
— Meister Eckhart men
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 god
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
— Meister Eckhart god
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 god
The more we have the less we own.
— Meister Eckhart
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
— Meister Eckhart war
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.
— Meister Eckhart self
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
— Meister Eckhart god
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.
— Meister Eckhart light
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.
— Meister Eckhart god
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
— Meister Eckhart love
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
— Meister Eckhart war
Words derive their power from the original word.
— Meister Eckhart power
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
— Meister Eckhart love
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
— Meister Eckhart justice
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
— Meister Eckhart god
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
— Meister Eckhart you
Every creature is a word of God.
— Meister Eckhart god
God is at home, its we who have gone out for a walk.
— Meister Eckhart god
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
— Meister Eckhart action
Gods gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver.
— Meister Eckhart god
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 and let God be God in you.
— Meister Eckhart god
All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you? One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary,
— Meister Eckhart god
God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as he is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul
— Meister Eckhart god
God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.
— Meister Eckhart god
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 life
And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
— Meister Eckhart love

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