A collection of quotes and thoughts by Meister Eckhart on new-beginnings, poems, books, prayer, life, heart, soul, love, God, serene, creation and knowledge.
65 Meaningful Quotes By Meister Eckhart For A New Lease Of Life
Meister Eckhart was a medieval-era German philosopher, mystic, and theologian. He gained recognition during the Avignon Papacy, at a time when tensions increased between diocesan clergy, Eckhart's Dominican Order of Preachers, the Franciscan Order, and monastic orders. His works with reverent lay groups such as the Friends of God made him more popular. Eckhart was one of the most influential 13th-century Christian Neoplatonists in his day, and was extensively read in the later Middle Ages. We have curated some famous quotes and sayings by Meister Eckhart on gratitude, prayer, beginnings, willingness, inner-peace, fallibility, religion, faith, mysticism, self-awarness, self-knowledge etc which have been gathered from his works, philosophies, thoughts, writings and life. Take a look at interesting quotes and thoughts by Meister Eckhart.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Meister Eckhart
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
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.
In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.
But of God you can never have a sufficiency. The more you have of God, the more you desire. If you could ever have enough of God, so that you were content with him, then God would not be God.
They who can go without all things, not needing them, are far more blessed than they who possess them in their need. That person is the best who can do without what they do not need.
We should be able to recognize true and perfect love by whether or not someone has great hope and confidence in God, for there is nothing that testifies more clearly to perfect love than trust.
Say, ‘I wish to come to you so that your wealth shall fill my poverty, your infinity shall fill my emptiness, and your immeasurable, incomprehensible Godhead shall fill my base and wretched humanity.
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