The greatest power available to man is not to use it. Meister Eckhart More Quotes by Meister Eckhart More Quotes From Meister Eckhart The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time. Meister Eckhart eternitysoulspiritual Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness Meister Eckhart soulmaygrieving To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found. Meister Eckhart egocostway God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you. Meister Eckhart expressiongodmade God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love. Meister Eckhart faithgivinglying God cannot know himself without me. Meister Eckhart knows ...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that. Meister Eckhart spiritualairsun One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works. Meister Eckhart shouldthinking The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction. Meister Eckhart subtractionsouldoe People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now. Meister Eckhart eternalpeople To the quiet mind all things are possible. Meister Eckhart all-thingsmindquiet There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Meister Eckhart tomorrowyesterdayyears 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. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works. Meister Eckhart spiritualpeoplethinking The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh 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. Meister Eckhart powerfulprayerperfect When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding. Meister Eckhart understandingall-thingsmen You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. Meister Eckhart compassionspirituallove God is at his greatest when I am at my least. Meister Eckhart spirituality This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit. Meister Eckhart judgingpeoplethinking The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay. Meister Eckhart powerfulessencereligion Every creature is a word of God. Meister Eckhart word-of-godsoulgod
