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Meister Eckhart

German philosopher and theologian

1260–1328

8 quotes, most often on God and Love.

The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon IV: True Hearing
- God
He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
- God
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
- Fear
- God
- Love
When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon III: The Angel’s Greeting
- God
- Pride
As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909), Sermon VII: Outward and Inward Morality
- God
- Love
A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
Talks of Instruction (Reden der Unterweisung, c. 1295), ch. 2; as translated in Patrick Grant (ed.), A Dazzling Darkness: An Anthology of Western Mysticism (1985)
- God

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