Quotes of Meister Eckhart - somelinesforyou

“ In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ The just man loves God for nothing, neither for this nor for that, and if God gave him wisdom or anything else he had to give, except himself, the just man would not look at it, nor would it be to his taste; for he wants nothing, seeks nothing, and has no reason for doing anything. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ If the only prayer you said in your whole life was “thank you” that would suffice. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Perfect humility tends to the annihilation of self. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ 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

“ If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ 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

“ Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ 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

“ Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ 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. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ It is a lie any talk of God that does not comfort you. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ”

- 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. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ 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. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ 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

“ Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working… ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ The more we have the less we own. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ Every creature is a word of God. ”

- Meister Eckhart
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