Meister Eckhart 1260 – 1328
Meister Eckhart was a German Dominican theologian, philosopher, and mystic. Trained in scholastic theology and twice the regent master at Paris, he is best known for his vernacular sermons, which articulate a radical mysticism centered on the ground of the soul and the birth of God within it. His teaching that the soul possesses an uncreated spark in which it is one with God led to a posthumous condemnation of twenty-eight of his propositions. Eckhart's influence shaped the Rhineland mystics and, through them, German philosophy from Hegel and Schopenhauer to Heidegger.
Key facts
- Nationality
- German
- Era
- Medieval
- Movements
- Medieval, Christian
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Meister Eckhart:
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.”
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Attributed to Meister Eckhart:
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
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Attributed to Meister Eckhart:
“God is at home; we are in the far country.”
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Attributed to Meister Eckhart:
“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”
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Attributed to Meister Eckhart:
“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light.”