To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process, for he hides behind it.

—Meister Eckhart

About Meister Eckhart

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Eckhart von Hochheim (born Johannes Eckhart; c. 1260 – c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart (German: [ˈmaɪstɐ ˈʔɛkaʁt]), was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic. He was born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire. He was a member of the Dominican...

More quotations from Meister Eckhart

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

—Meister Eckhart

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. And not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections; not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

—Meister Eckhart

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into God.

—Meister Eckhart

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

—Meister Eckhart

love thinking contemplation

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

—Meister Eckhart

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