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"47 Meister Eckhart Quotes & Sayings

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Born c. 1260. Died 1327/28 | Theologian | Philosopher | Mystic |
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
Willing Beginner Morning
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Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Love Root Joy Sorrow
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Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Relation Essence Everything Exists
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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Hand Erases Write True
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When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

Soul Experience Image Steps
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Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

God Outburst Compassion
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If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough.
Prayer Thank you Enough
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For it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

Works Sanctify
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Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God’s possession.

Possession God's
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Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Darkness Finds Light Sorrow
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Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Wisdom Heart Delight
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Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

Love Death Soul Body
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Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

Nobody Time Cut off God
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Every creature is a word of God.

Creature Word God
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We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.

Find Achieve Great things Astray
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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

Truth Noble God
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Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

Theologians Mystics World Language
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Price Inaction Cost Mistake
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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

God Man Peaceful Heart
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One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be

One Learn Solitude
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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Outward Work Inward Great
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I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth

Truth Mind Barrier Truth
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We must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Transformed Ignorance Knowledge
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There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.

Look God Door Heart
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The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

Theorizing God Receptive Inpouring
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Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

Aware Announce Produce Birth
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Plant Contemplation Harvest Action
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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.

Full Empty God
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God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

God Soul Process Subtraction
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There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Nothing God Universe Silence
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Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

Stillness Creativity Solutions Found
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To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Quiet Mind Possible
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Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

Compassion Peace Justice Kiss
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The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

Soul Time Eternity Powers
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Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

Bodily Food Changes Spiritual
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People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

People Dwell God Eternity
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God is equally near in all creatures.

God Equally Near Creatures
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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

Seek God Rituals Lose
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Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

Grace Beauty Soul World
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Silence Man Preserve Integrity
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To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.

God Things Sign New birth
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For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

Heart Perfectly Condition Capacity
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Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

Nothing Sharper Suffering Sweeter
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The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

Greatest Power Man Use
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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Man Contemplation Love
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Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.

Think Just Ways
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Words derive their power from the original word.

Words Derive Power Original
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Meister Eckhart Quotes & Sayings