Quotes About Eckhart

Unlike the modern ideal of systematization in definition, these people celebrated the fact that, as Meister Eckhart once claimed, the unnameable is omni-nameable. Evidently such conflicts were not judged to be problematic but were accepted. Indeed, such fissures help to prevent us from forming an idolatrous image of God, ensuring that none of us can legitimately claim to understand God as God really is.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Your task is not to search for love but to find a portal through which love can enter

Freedom in the sense of being unfettered, free from the craving for holding onto things and one's ego, is the condition for love and for productive being. Our human aim, according to Eckhart, is to get rid of the fetters of egoboundness, egocentricity, that is to say the having mode of existence, in order to arrive at full being.

I once said the wrong movie name to Aaron Eckhart, and boy did he tease me about it for years.

No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

The Church condemned and suppressed his work, and probably destroyed a lot of it. In the 1880s, two Latin manuscripts of Eckhart's were found. Since 1980 the Dominican Order has sought to reveal that Eckhart was an exemplary Christian mystic and priest.

The Buddha, Eckhart and I all teach essentially the same, Eckhart within the bounds of his Christian mythology. In Buddhism, these ideas are not encumbered by any such mythology, and are thus simple and clear, to the extent that a religion can be clear. Complete clarity lies with me.

God is voluptuous and delicious. — Meister Eckhart

For Eckhart, then, there is only one Word of God ("God spoke once") that resounds in every atom of the universe ("I heard two").

Creation, for Eckhart, is filled both with God and exists in God. Its "mission" is to point beyond itself to God.

For Eckhart, this is who God is, and this is who we are in God. If God is love, as the First Letter of John holds (1 John 4:8), then love is God, and our loving is God loving. Through love we are brought into the loving that is God. Says Eckhart, "Likeness and love raise, lead and convey the soul into the prime source of the one, that is, the Father of all things in heaven and earth."42

As Meister Eckhart wrote in The Soul Is One with God, the ultimate aim of the mystic is identity: "God is love, and he who is in love is in God and God in him.

Suzuki also frequently quotes a sentence of Eckhart's: "The eye wherein I see God is the same eye wherein God sees me" (Suzuki, Mysticism: East and West, p. 50) as an exact expression of what Zen means by Prajna.

Meister Eckhart said that there is nothing in the world that resembles God so much as silence. Silence

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

If his accusers charged Eckhart with heresy, then he charged them with stupidity.

This birth which takes place unceasingly in eternity is the very same birth which has taken place within human nature.

Thus the word "I" means the purity of God's essence, as he is in himself, and is free and bare of any additional essences which are foreign to him, for they are created.