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“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
― Meister Eckhart

“God is greater than God.”
― Meister Eckhart

“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”
― Meister Eckhart

“Only the hand that erases
can write the true thing.”
― Meister Eckhart

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

“The story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 1o) can he interpreted mystically in such a way that the question of the knowledge of God becomes its focus. The priest and the Levite, who walk past the man who fell among robbers and was seriously hurt, are pious God-fearing persons. They "know" God and the law of God. They have God the same way that the one who knows has that which is known. They know what God wants them to be and do. They also know where God is to he found, in the scriptures and the cult of the temple. For them, God is mediated through the existing institutions. They have their God - one who is not to he found on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho.

What is wrong with this knowledge of God? The problem is not the knowledge of the Torah or the knowledge of the temple. (It is absurd to read an anti-Judaistic meaning into a story of the Jew Jesus, since it could just as well have come from Hillel or another Jewish teacher.) What is false is a knowledge of God that does not allow for any unknowing or any negative theology. Because both actors know that God is "this," they do not see "that." Hence the Good Samaritan is the anti-fundamentalist story par excellence.

"And so I ask God to rid me of God," Meister Eckhart says. The God who is known and familiar is too small for him.”
― Dorothee Soelle, Silent Cry: Mysticism And Resistance

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
― Meister Eckhart

“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
― Meister Eckhart

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”
― Meister Eckhart

“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.”
― Meister Eckhart

“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

“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”
― Meister Eckhart

“When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”
― Meister Eckhart

“One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.”
― Meister Eckhart

“We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.”
― 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, Selected Writings

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
― Meister Eckhart

“God is not good, or else he could do better.”
― Meister Eckhart

“I am what I wanted and I want what I am.”
― Meister Eckhart

“God is at home. We are in the far country.”
― Meister Eckhart

“If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living. ”
― Meister Eckhart

“Every creature is a word of God.”
― Meister Eckhart

“Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.”
― Meister Eckhart

“The more we have the less we own.”
― Meister Eckhart

“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

“Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons and Treatises, Vol 2

“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.”
― Meister Eckhart

“There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.”
― Meister Eckhart

“As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.”
― Meister Eckhart

“There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.”
― Meister Eckhart