The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it;… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with… — 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
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