“One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.”
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Famous Meister Eckhart Quotes
Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Source: Meister Eckhart (CWS)
“Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.”
“We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”
“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
Source: Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart
“Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.”
Source: Meister Eckhart’s Sermons
“Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.”
“God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.”
“Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness”
“That's all an angel is....an idea of God.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion”
“Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.”
Source: Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation
“People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.”
Source: Meister Eckhart
“God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.”
Source: Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation
“No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.”
Source: Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart