Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: When the Son of Man is begotten in us.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Author, Quote Topic
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? 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.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Silence
There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven. –Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Grace, Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
Grace is from God, and works in the depth of the soul whose powers it employs. It is a light which issues forth to do service under the guidance of the Spirit. The Divine Light permeates the soul, and lifts it above the turmoil of temporal things to rest in God. The soul cannot progress except with the light which God has given it as a nuptial gift; love works the likeness of God into the soul.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Detachment, Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Page: Quotes, Prayer (why), Quote Author, Quote Topic
The question arises: But what then does the sanctified heart pray for? I answer that when truly sanctified, it prays for nothing, for whosoever prays asks God to give him some good, or to take some evil from him. But the sanctified heart desires nothing, and contains nothing that it wishes to be freed from. Therefore it is free of all want except that it wants to be like God.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
