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Meister Eckhart Quotes
German
-
Philosopher
1260 - 1328
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
Things
Full
Empty
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart
True
Only
Thing
Hand
Write
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
Meister Eckhart
Justice
Who
Person
Just
Transformed
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart
Work
Great
Never
Will
Inward
Outward
Puny
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
Meister Eckhart
You
Most
Secure
Would
Felt
Exactly
Exactly What
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart
Love
Man
He
Contemplation
Takes
Out
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
Me
Father
Never
Avail
Bear
Birth
Borne
Ceases
Celebrating
Eternal
Eternity
Everything
Feast
Lies
Place
Take
Takes
Should
Which
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister Eckhart
Love
Best
God
You
Call
Compassion
God Love
Goodness
Love You
May
Name
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
Who
He
Pure
Thing
Detachment
Needs
One Thing
Serene
Would
Would-Be
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
Meister Eckhart
God
Walk
Home
Who
Gone
Out
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
Man
Never
Always
Away
Cannot
Close
Door
Far
Far Away
Further
Goes
Hand
Near
Standing
Stay
Within
Even
He
Than
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart
God
Heart
Man
Peaceful
Wants
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
Knowledge
Simple
People
Here
Imagine
Known
Stood
He
See
Should
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
Tomorrow
Will
New
Always
End
Exists
Hence
Instant
Itself
Nor
Now
Present
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
Years Ago
Yesterday
Any
Only
Which
Without
The more we have the less we own.
Meister Eckhart
More
Own
Less
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
Life
You
Prayer
Thankful
Thank You
Enough
Entire
Entire Life
Ever
Thank
Only
Say
Will
Your
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.
Meister Eckhart
God
You
Yourself
Being
Come
Created
Expects
Far
Made
One Thing
Out
Should
Thing
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart
God
Soul
Creation
Only
Filled
Gave
Himself
She
Thereby
Whole
His
Would
Words derive their power from the original word.
Meister Eckhart
Power
Words
Original
Word
Derive
Every creature is a word of God.
Meister Eckhart
God
Every
Creature
Word
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Meister Eckhart
Attitude
You
Your
Own
Order
Thwarted
Out
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
God
Me
See
Eye
Same
Sees
I See
Which
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
Mistake
Inaction
Price
Far
Making
Cost
Greater
Than
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart
Man
Door
Still
Swinging
Hinge
Inner
Outward
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
Plant
Brainy
Action
Harvest
Contemplation
Reap
Shall
Soil
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
Darkness
Light
Sympathy
Sorrow
Finds
Nearest
Truly
Then
Us
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
God
Better
Who
Anything
Books
Contents
Mastered
Person
Persons
Thousand
Get
No-One
Only
Out
Than
Without
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