Quote

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

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
Readily
Preserve
Preserves
Integrity
Silence
Men

More quotes by Meister Eckhart

Image
Action and becoming are one.
Meister Eckhart
Image
If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
Meister Eckhart
Image
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
Meister Eckhart
Image
For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
Meister Eckhart
Image
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
Meister Eckhart
Image
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.
Meister Eckhart
Image
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
Meister Eckhart
Image
The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
Meister Eckhart
Image
There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.
Meister Eckhart
Image
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
Meister Eckhart
Image
To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.
Meister Eckhart
Image
God is at home. We are in the far country.
Meister Eckhart
Image
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
Image
I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
Meister Eckhart
Image
What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
Meister Eckhart
Image
Every creature is a word of God.
Meister Eckhart
Image
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
Meister Eckhart
Image
If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.
Meister Eckhart
Image
Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
Meister Eckhart
Image
There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
Meister Eckhart