Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered. Meister Eckhart More Quotes by Meister Eckhart More Quotes From Meister Eckhart My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read. Meister Eckhart scripturedonelaughing 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 laughterfatherson Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says. Meister Eckhart evilorderfather There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves. Meister Eckhart giving-uphalfhonor We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything. Meister Eckhart religion One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind. Meister Eckhart solitudestrongmind People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works. Meister Eckhart deedsworrypeople Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work. Meister Eckhart effortusefound Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well. Meister Eckhart finding-lovesoulmemories As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things. Meister Eckhart all-thingsspirituallong That's all an angel is....an idea of God. Meister Eckhart my-angelangelideas 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 angelgivingideas Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well. Meister Eckhart understandingknowingmay A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God. Meister Eckhart doewantheart The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself. Meister Eckhart airrunningmean To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way. Meister Eckhart giving-upjobstwo 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 givingfatherson No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad. Meister Eckhart reasonlostmen The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances. Meister Eckhart purposegodmen This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward. Meister Eckhart commandmentsrewardspromise
