Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim
c. 1260-1328 • German
Christian Mysticism
German theologian and mystic, Dominican priest. His sermons on divine union and detachment influenced Western mysticism for centuries.
Key Works
- Sermons
- Talks of Instruction
- The Book of Divine Consolation
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Quotes by Meister Eckhart
109 quotes“All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself.”
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“True hearing or seeing means the loss of self.”
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“He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing: detachment.”
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“Detachment is better than love, for it forces God to love me.”
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“Detachment compels God to come to me.”
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“Whoever desires to attain to true detachment, let them flee unrest as they would flee a deadly enemy.”
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“Stillness is the highest good.”
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“In the silence, God speaks.”
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“He alone has truth and peace who has truly given himself up to God.”
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“Of all the names that we give to God, none is so apt as 'Goodness.'”
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“Yet a still better name is 'Being.' For Being is the first of names.”
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“Whatever has being possesses goodness.”
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“To be without things is to be nothing, but to be without God is the same as nothing.”
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“Wherever I am, there is God.”
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“The soul is so noble that nothing without it can satisfy it but God Himself.”
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“As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.”
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“As long as you have a self at all, you have not yet experienced God.”
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“He who has this poverty has all things.”
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“A spiritually poor person is one who wills nothing, knows nothing, and has nothing.”
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