Maxioms by Meister Eckhart
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear read more
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.
There never was a pain that befell a man, no frustration or discouragement, however insignificant, that, transferred to God, did read more
There never was a pain that befell a man, no frustration or discouragement, however insignificant, that, transferred to God, did not affect God endlessly more than man and was not infinitely more contrary to Him. So, if God puts up with it for the sake of some good He foresees for you, and if you are willing to suffer what God suffers, and to take what comes to you through Him, then whatever it is, it becomes divine in itself; shame becomes honor, bitterness becomes sweet, and gross darkness, clear light. Everything takes its savor from God and becomes divine; everything that happens betrays God when a man's mind works that way. Things have all this one taste; and therefore God is the same to this man alike in life's bitterest moments and sweetest pleasures.
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to
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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to
be full of God.
God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.
God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.
