“Indeed, even if you make God your goal, all the works you perform for his sake will be dead, and you will only spoil those works which are genuinely good. Not only will you spoil your good works, but you will also commit sins, for you will be behaving like a gardener who is supposed to plant a garden but who pulls out all the trees instead and then demands his wages. That is how you will spoil your good works. And so, if you wish to live and wish your works to live too, then you must be dead to all things and be reduced to nothing. It is a property of creatures to make one thing from another, but it is a property of God to make something from nothing. And so if God is to make something of you or in you, then you must first yourself become nothingness. Enter your own inner ground therefore and act from there, and all your works shall be living works. That is why ' the wise man' says that 'the just person lives in eternity' since it is because they are just that such a person acts, and all their works are living works.” SpiritualityChristianityMysticismChristian Mysticism Book:Selected Writings Source: Selected Writings
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.” GodEyeSpiritualityKnowingSeeingDisappointmentMysticismOne LoveSpiritual AwarenessThrough My EyesSpiritual EyesEyes And Love Author:Meister Eckhart
“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.” WorldMayRunningSpiritualSpiritualitySolitudeFlightRunning AwaySolitaryPenetrate Author:Meister Eckhart
“The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.” SoulSpiritualSpiritualityHighestEternity Author:Meister Eckhart
“To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.” KnowsFirstsSpiritualSpiritualitySimpleKnownAll ThingsMovedCoreStillnessKnowing God Author:Meister Eckhart
“You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.” MayGodChristianSpiritualSpiritualityPeaceChristianityProgressLackingDeep ThoughtTheologianMeasurementMeasuring Author:Meister Eckhart
“As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.” LongSpiritualSpiritualityPureAll Things Author:Meister Eckhart
“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.” PeopleIfsShouldSpiritualSpiritualitySimpleKnownImagineImagine That Author:Meister Eckhart
“You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.” NeedsHeartSpiritualityDoors Author:Meister Eckhart
“.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.” SpiritReligionSpiritualityAll ThingsStonesWoodsGrassGardeningBladesBlades Of Grass Author:Meister Eckhart