Latest Meister Eckhart Quotes from Interviews

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• Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

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  Desire, Able, Pleasure

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• The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.

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  Laughter, Father, Son

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• If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

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  Eye, Crowds, Fixed

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• The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

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  Letting Go, Silence, Secret

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• Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well as in church, or in the desert or in a monastic cell...Why is this so? It is so because such a person possesses God alone, keeping their gaze fixed upon God, and thus all things become God for him or her. Such people be a God in all their deeds and in all the places they go, and it is God alone who is the author of all their deeds.

  Meister Eckhart

  Cells, People, Church

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• If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

  Meister Eckhart

  Wise, Wiser, True God

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• I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

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  My Own

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• When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.

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  Fetch

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