Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth! Meister Eckhart More Quotes by Meister Eckhart More Quotes From Meister Eckhart Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing. Meister Eckhart source made [W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. Meister Eckhart transformed ignorance knowing Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated. Meister Eckhart liberated caught looks That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love. Meister Eckhart contemplation love men The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. Meister Eckhart simple spiritual people People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are. Meister Eckhart faith people thinking Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me. Meister Eckhart saint and-love love-you When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order Meister Eckhart positive-attitude attitude inspirational For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity. Meister Eckhart empty capacity heart We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born. Meister Eckhart born meant-to-be mother 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 i-love-him benefits way I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest. Meister Eckhart wisdom fun men God is not good, or else he could do better. Meister Eckhart As long as I am this or that, I am not all things. Meister Eckhart all-things long And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other. Meister Eckhart stress bears looks What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. Meister Eckhart contemplation love men 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 love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us. Meister Eckhart first-love god-love firsts If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence. Meister Eckhart shells essence reality He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self. Meister Eckhart knowing self god
