Meister Eckhart Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Every creature is a word of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Soul, Word Of God

• The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.
  They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
  If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
  If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Memories, Angel

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Philosophical, Simplicity, Soul

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

• The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Doe, Subtraction

• No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

  Meister Eckhart

  Compassion, Soul, Knows

• The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spiritual, Soul, Eternity

• Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

  Meister Eckhart

  Strength, House, Soul

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Want, Steps

• Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

  Meister Eckhart

  Grieving, Soul, May

• There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul

• Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

  Meister Eckhart

  Beauty, Mean, Grace

• Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Knowledge, Ideas, Soul

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Book by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

• The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Ideas, Giving

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

• The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Order, Long, Soul

• A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

  Meister Eckhart

  Inspirational, Heart, Soul

• I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Soul, Capacity

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

• If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Creation, Filled

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

• There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Common

• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

  Strong, Love Is, Soul

• When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

  Meister Eckhart

  Angel, Soul, Knows

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

• 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.'

  Meister Eckhart

  Letting Go, Men, Long Ago

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

• God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Divine, Rational

  Eckhart (Meister) (1963). “Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart”

• The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like God. And it may well be true, for the soul at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. For this reason the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Angel, Son

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

• Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .

  Meister Eckhart

  Past, Men, Sight

• Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Void, May

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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