Meister Eckhart

Christian mystic and theologian.

A medieval German mystic and theologian known for his deep reflections on the nature of God, being, and the soul. He taught that the divine essence resides within each person and can be directly realized through detachment and inner stillness. His sermons and writings, though controversial in his time, have since inspired seekers of spiritual truth and influenced modern contemplative practices.

Meister Eckhart Quotes about Love

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The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
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Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
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If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
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The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
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Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
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Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
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Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.
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When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
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That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.
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