Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim O.P., commonly known as Meister Eckhart , was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryGermany
acting becoming action
Action and becoming are one.
action saved
It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
soul doe subtraction
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
excellence soil action
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
philosophical soul subtraction
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.