Meister Eckhart quotes - page 3

The knower and the known are one. (Meister Eckhart)
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. View quote
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God is at home it is we who have gone for a walk. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. View quote
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. View quote
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The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. View quote
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. (Meister Eckhart)
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. View quote
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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice. View quote
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Words derive their power from the original word. View quote
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A person should never be satisfied with a thought God, for when the thought perishes, the God also perishes. View quote
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The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love. View quote
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A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere. View quote
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When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. View quote
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One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be. View quote
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. View quote
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All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments. (Meister Eckhart)
When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all. View quote
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Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God. View quote
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We read in the Gospels that Our Lord fed many people with five loaves and two fishes. Speaking parabolically, we may say that the first loaf was - that we should know ourselves, what we have been everlastingly to God, and what we now are to Him. View quote
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The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, "Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed." View quote
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