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Quotes by Meister Eckhart

Born: 1st May 1260, Died: 26th April 1328
Meister Eckhart was a German philosopher, theologian, and mystic who lived in the late Middle Ages.
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Read Summary

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. Read Summary

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. Read Summary

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. Read Summary

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

The more we have the less we own. Read Summary

Every creature is a word of God. Read Summary

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. Read Summary

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

Words derive their power from the original word. Read Summary

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

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

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. Read Summary

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. Read Summary

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. Read Summary

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. Read Summary

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. Read Summary

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

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice. Read Summary

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. Read Summary