Quotes by Eckhart, Meister

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. >>

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always sta >>

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name fo >>

Quotations about Prayer

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself >>

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to di >>

Bow, stubborn knees! >>

To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

Eckhart, Meister