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Eckhart von Hochheim OP (c. 1260 – c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart[a] or Eckehart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire.[b]

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There exists only the present instant. . . There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

Instant, Tomorrow, Yesterday

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Found, God, Philosophical, Simplicity, Soul, Subtraction

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

Creativity, Found, Solutions, Stillness

Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go. '

Continue, Insignificant, Letting Go, Long Ago, Man, Men

Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence.

Existence, Health, Highest, Men, Perfection, Sick

God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn't act, as he wishes; who can will to do something or leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way with God: 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.

Air, Clear, Compared, Pour, Sun, Wish

People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.

Faith, Ground, Imagine, Ought, People, Thinking

My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives. . . If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

Children, Godhood, Joy, Know, Lovely, Soul

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

Barriers, Good, Mind, Object, Objects, Truth

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

Conceive, Except, God, My Own

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

God, Greatest, Spirituality

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

God, Good, True, True God, Wise, Wiser

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

God, Grow, Growing Up, Hard Work, Pear, Seed

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Inspirational, Want, Wanted

The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

Christian, God, Growing Up, Hazel, Industrious, Wise

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.

Believe, Men, Mere, Praiseworthy, Real, Save

I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

Circles, Good Life, Keep, Person, Place, Wish

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.

Answer, Ground, Live Life, Spring, Springs, Years

To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

Emptiness, Empty, Full, God

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Funny, God, Gone, Home

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