God is not good, or else he could do better. Meister Eckhart More Quotes by Meister Eckhart More Quotes From Meister Eckhart God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him. Meister Eckhart knowing-who-you-aredrawingcutting I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth. Meister Eckhart objectsbarriersmind 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 bodysoullooks I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart. Meister Eckhart heartworldneeds If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is. Meister Eckhart true-godwiserwise Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him. Meister Eckhart chancegodlooks 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 To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth. Meister Eckhart birthall-things Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see. Meister Eckhart shiningtastedivine Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.' Meister Eckhart long-agoletting-gomen God is greater than God. Meister Eckhart greater .... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One. Meister Eckhart gardeningstonesreligion Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue. Meister Eckhart untrue To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within. Meister Eckhart movedform 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 bodysoul To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process Meister Eckhart ritualprocessgod Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered. Meister Eckhart suffering A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all. Meister Eckhart rest-and-peacepainstills As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love. Meister Eckhart light Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing. Meister Eckhart actingfaithorder
