All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you'? One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. The same Eckhart… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to receive the body of our Lord does not need to scrutinize what they are feeling at the time or how great… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“But where is this true possession of God, whereby we really possess him, to be found? This real possession of God is to be… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Concerning this desert, Jeremiah writes: ‘I will lead my beloved into the wilderness and will speak to her in her heart’ (Hosea 2:14) .… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image