Meister Eckhart Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Every creature is a word of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Soul, Word Of God

• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Memories, Angel

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Philosophical, Simplicity, Soul

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

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Doe, Subtraction

• No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

  Meister Eckhart

  Compassion, Soul, Knows

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Soul, Eternity

• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

  Strength, House, Soul

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Want, Steps

• Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

  Meister Eckhart

  Grieving, Soul, May

• There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul

• Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

  Meister Eckhart

  Beauty, Mean, Grace

• 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

  Knowledge, Ideas, Soul

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Book by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

• The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Ideas, Giving

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

• The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Order, Long, Soul

• A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

  Meister Eckhart

  Inspirational, Heart, Soul

• I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Soul, Capacity

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

• If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Creation, Filled

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

• There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Common

• Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Void, May

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

• My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

  Meister Eckhart

  Children, Joy, Soul

• The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Son, Giving

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.38, Cosimo, Inc.

• Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul.
  If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.

  Meister Eckhart

  Jesus, Home, Soul

• 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

  Soul, Body

• The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.

  Meister Eckhart

  Laughter, Father, Son

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Looks, Body

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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