Meister Eckhart Quotes

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  If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

  Meister Eckhart

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

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  Recovery, Silence, Heaven

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• 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

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  Faith, Giving, Be Prepared

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• The most important hour is always the present.
  The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.
  The most necessary work is always love.

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  Important, Sitting, Hours

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• For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

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  Letting Go, Way, Persons

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• The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

  Meister Eckhart

  Prayer, Powerful, Ties

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

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  Mother, Peace, Son

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• The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.

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  Soul, Doe, Subtraction

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• The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.
  They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
  If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
  If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

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  Letting Go, Memories, Angel

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• Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

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  Book, Animal, Word Of God

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• Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

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  Good Morning, New Beginnings, Good Day

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• And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

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  New Beginnings, Magic, Something New

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• 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.

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  God, Disappointment, Eye

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• Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

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  Giving, Birth, Awareness

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• 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.

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  Running, Spiritual, Solitude

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• It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

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  Grief, Light, Darkness

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• The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
  remain still and let God act and speak in you.

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  Letting Go, Life Is, Speak

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• The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

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  Perfection, Suffering, Bears

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• Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

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  World, May, Language

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• Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creating equality. Nor is there any pleasure without equality. Practice equality in human society. Learn to love, esteem, consider all people like yourself. What happens to another, be it bad or good, pain or joy, ought to be as if it happened to you.

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  Pain, Practice, Creating

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  What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

  Meister Eckhart

  Excellence, Soil, Action

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• The more deeply we are our true selves,
  the less self is in us.

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  Self, True Self

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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.

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  God, Emptiness, Empty

  "Men Who Have Walked with God". Book by Sheldon Cheney, 1992.

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• To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Process, Ritual

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

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  Strength, House, Soul

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