Maître Eckhart citations

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“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.”

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

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

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

“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”

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

“My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.”

“Nobody at any time is cut off from God.”

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

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

“Run into peace.”

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

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

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

“Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.”

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“The more we have the less we own.”

“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.”

“Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.”

“As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.”

“God can dispense with us just as little as we can dispense with him.”

“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.”

“Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter.”

“As the peculiar faculty of the eye is to see form and colour, and of the ear to hear sweet tones and voices, so is aspiration peculiar to the soul. To relax from ceaseless aspiration is sin. This energy of aspiration directed to and grasping God, as far as is possible for the creature, is called Hope, which is also a divine virtue. Through this faculty the soul acquires such great confidence that she deems nothing in the Divine Nature beyond her reach.”

“The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.”

“A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.”

“A person should never be satisfied with a thought God, for when the thought perishes, the God also perishes.”

“We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.”