Meister Eckhart Quotes

• And thou shouldest know that to be empty of all creature's love is to be full of God, and to be full of creature-love is to be empty of God.
  Sermon VI
  
  
• God is in all things, but in so far as God is Divine and in so far as God is rational, he exists more properly in the soul and in angels, that is in the innermost and highest part of the soul, than he does anywhere else.
  Sermon 4, DW 30, W 18
  
  
• He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
  Sermon V
  
  
• If I am to know the highest good, and the everlasting Godhead, truly, I must know them as they are in themselves apart from creation. If I am to know real existence, I must know it as it is in itself, not as it is parceled out in creatures.
  Sermon II
  
  
• The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
  Sermon IV
  
  
• The soul has two eyes: an inner and an outer eye. The inner eye of the soul is the one which perceives being and receives its own being directly from God: This is the activity which is particular to itself. The outer eye of the soul is that which is directed towards all creatures and which perceives them in the manner of an image and the function of a faculty. But they who are turned within themselves so that they know God according to their own taste and in their own being, are freed from all created thingss and are secure in themselves in a very fortress of truth.
  Sermon 15, DW 10, W 66
  
  
• We should know first of all that we possess in ourselves two natures, one that is body and the other spirit, as is evident to all. Thus one book states: whoever knows themsleves, knows all creatures, for all creatures are either body or spirit.
  On the Noble Man
  
  

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