Quote

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

Meister Eckhart

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Long
Things

More quotes by Meister Eckhart

Image
I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
Meister Eckhart
Image
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
Meister Eckhart
Image
God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
Meister Eckhart
Image
Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
Meister Eckhart
Image
To the quiet mind all things are possible.
Meister Eckhart
Image
No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.
Meister Eckhart
Image
If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.
Meister Eckhart
Image
As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
Meister Eckhart
Image
Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
Meister Eckhart
Image
People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
Meister Eckhart
Image
It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
Meister Eckhart
Image
Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
Meister Eckhart
Image
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
Meister Eckhart
Image
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
Image
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart
Image
Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
Meister Eckhart
Image
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
Image
I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
Meister Eckhart
Image
Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
Meister Eckhart
Image
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.
Meister Eckhart