There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is. Meister Eckhart More Quotes by Meister Eckhart More Quotes From Meister Eckhart I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will! Meister Eckhart mind may firsts Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him. Meister Eckhart free-spirit god-love long Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just. Meister Eckhart ifs way thinking All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you Meister Eckhart asks letting-go God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul Meister Eckhart rational divine soul Words derive their power from the original word. Meister Eckhart originals Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God. Meister Eckhart selfishness spring men A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice. Meister Eckhart transformed persons justice When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure. Meister Eckhart angel soul knows All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son. Meister Eckhart teach father son To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong. Meister Eckhart walks wonder Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul. Meister Eckhart strong soul love-is 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 soul ideas knowledge One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God. Meister Eckhart thousand life-is book For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him. Meister Eckhart my-soul soul Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground. Meister Eckhart stones The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith. Meister Eckhart real men believe Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression. Meister Eckhart stress christian ideas 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 void soul may God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it. Meister Eckhart philosophical woods stones
