Quotes by Meister Eckhart

Meister Eckhart

German mystic

Lived from: 1260 - 1328

Category: Theologians and clergy Country: FlagGermany

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  • A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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  • If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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  • If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
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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.
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  • God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
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  • He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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  • Jesus might have said, ''I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.''
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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.
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  • Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
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  • 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.
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  • The more we have the less we own.
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  • The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
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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.
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  • Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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  • To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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  • 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.
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  • What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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  • You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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  • All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
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What are the most famous quotes from Meister Eckhart?

The two most famous quotes from Meister Eckhart are:

  • "A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."
  • "If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."

When did Meister Eckhart live?

Meister Eckhart was born in 1260 and died in the year 1328.