Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#prayer #gratitude

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

#god #knowledge #love #medieval #mysticism

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#hand #only #thing #true #write

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#creation

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

#god-is-close-to-us #faith

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. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#religion #sacramental-awareness #religion

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#mysticism

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#redemption #stumble #respect

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#contemplation #harvest #plant #reap #shall

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#god #i #i see #me #same