Meister Eckhart Quotes That Will Blow Your Reality

[@adim00lah]

"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language." Amen!

[@steelgila]

That quote that says "we are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience" would seem to fit in here with Eckhart's spirit.

[@JustFollowingOrders12]

Being. Not beings

[@Ndo01]

He was truly enlightened.

[@gonzothegreat1317]

How many people do you think of 8 billion are enlightened? Are you? Be truthful.

[@Ndo01]

​@@gonzothegreat1317 Depends how you define 'enlightened'. There are degrees to it, and I'd put the Buddha at the top. People have an awakening experience which leads them to cultivate that, leading to enlightenment. I'd say I'm awakened but not enlightened. If I were to guess, I'd say there are probably a million awakened people, and a thousand enlightened people.

[@gabrielalfaia8154]

@@gonzothegreat1317 The experience described by Eckhart, buddhism, zeen and others is fairly commom among hard practicioners. It's as common and being a three stripe black belt in brazilian jiu-jitsu. It's hard and most people will remain on the blue belt, but it's not impossible.

[@ultrasignificantfootnote3378]

@@gonzothegreat1317 On averige I am enlightend 5% of the day , I am being 100% truthfull.

[@pigeon4x250]

@@gonzothegreat1317 The celts viewed our path through life as a spiral and "enlightenment", for those that seek it, as something that we pass into and out of at various times as we spiral through our life. I don't think I've ever heard a better way of putting it. I think it's pretty rare for someone to reach a state of enlightenment and stay there. Most people that say they are enlightened possibly were at one point but have since learned to "talk the talk" and fallen into an ego-trap.

[@TheNikolausl]

Thank You! ... what a wonderful prayer🙏

[@Susan-gm5pw]

Every single word is profoundly and hauntingly familiar....Thank you for sharing...

[@lindakoch9524]

The last one resonates with me …”time” has become a nemesis of mine Thank you for sharing these! A fan of Eckhart Tolle, and I’m now a fan of Meister Eckhart…

[@jcd3869]

Mr. Tolle incorporated much of his teachings of based on Meister Eckhart. Being in the now is the way to connect directly to the Tao/God inside of us(ie..nearer to us). All the best.

[@D0sTKhan]

Truly those who cannot trust, cannot love

[@chadkline4268]

I only recently learned of this man, but i know that he knows 😊

[@gonzothegreat1317]

You know too?

[@chadkline4268]

@@gonzothegreat1317 I know some things, but I have not accomplished all I intend to accomplish 😁

[@Jacqueoldfield]

Beautiful ❤thank you for sharing

[@mortalclown3812]

The part about God telling a joke is everything. Trying to imagine how radical his single eye quote must've been in the 13th century. Wondering about his STEs (spiritually transformative experiences) that jolted his awakenings.

[@veroniquejulien4841]

Thanks for these great quote, and beautiful diction. The back music -even nice in itself though- is far too loud, very distracting, noise silencing the words

[@ultrasignificantfootnote3378]

Wisdom separates the spirit from the heart , all encapsulated in the soul.

[@firedrag5]

what is the music in the background called?

[@Damascusmind1]

What is the name of the piano piece in the background?

[@Damascusmind1]

Found it search: Amara Notre Dame

[@josaphcj7199]

Thank you so much

[@cecilcharlesofficial]

So... if you're here, this might resonate with you. Take a moment and look at the actual sensation/situation inside your head (this is the real purpose of meditation). See that it's a never-ending stream of thoughts (word-ideas), emotions (sensations in the body that are *because* of something or indicate something), and physical sensations not related to emotion. So, basically thoughts and sensations. The key insight to see, when you look, is that a) it's always now, and b) you're not in control of what thought or sensation you're having now. Aka, you can't choose a thought without simply just having it. But even if you could (like if you looked in a bag of thoughts and picked out the ones you liked), you'd only ever be choosing them based on liking them (even for very good reasons) and so then you're not 'choosing' them. You're obeying your will. And we don't choose what our will is. To 'choose' our will is just to exert unchosen will. Will being the feeling of 'I want or I like XYZ' - whether that desire is for a cookie or for communion with God. And since we don't choose what we think, nor what we feel (we can't make ourselves love someone just by saying "I love you," nor can we make ourselves have faith just by believing we should), we're really not in control of anything. But that means we're not in control of our conscience either, whether it's there (it always is). Conscience is judgment. We always judge. We can't stop ourselves. We can see that we've been wrong before, though. And we can see that when we were wrong, we sometimes knew it, and sometimes didn't. But still we must rely on our judgment - we're stuck doing exactly that (even if our judgment is twisted due to emotional issues or chemicals, etc) - the point is, you're at the mercy of what you think. So, take it just a little less seriously. Not "throw it away," because it's all you have. Just see that you a) can be wrong, and b) you're not in control. But you've seen yourself learn, too. Yet even then you're not in control of when you do. You don't rearrange the neurons in your head to finally 'get' something. So basically you hit a fundamental exasperation because you realize you're absolutely not in control. No consciousness is, because consciousness only ever experiences will. And so whether it's determined (I don't think so), or free (I think, but what does that mean anymore?), either way - your will is only ever experienced by you, moment to moment, and totally outside of your control. So you're stuck. And then you see you've been in this stuck situation, believing yourself to be in control and going half crazy (like we all do) because life still eluded your grasp, and your anxiety still eludes your grasp, and yet here you are. And it's gone mostly well (your life, thus far). And then you start to develop a little bit of faith. But real faith. Faith as in, "Holy hell, this is all God doing this and I'm not in control and yet I'll suffer whatever fortune brings and somehow that's oddly thrilling and shattering at the same time." And you start to trust it. It doesn't make bad things suddenly good. You still have a conscience. It makes every moment part of your path. Your path to faith. The other half of everything is willingly feeling your body sensations. As much as you can, all the time. Every moment. All your emotional anxiety - it's pain being expressed in little tissues in the body, behind your eyes, in your jaw, neck, voicebox, sternum, abdomen, pelvis. It's the clenching we all do when fearing an incoming punch, but these tissues seem all clenched to stave off expected emotional pain. And it doesn't work in protecting us from that. We're just all clenched inside, forever. Once you see you're not 'the chooser' - that you're expressing will, not choosing it - those little tissues might start to unclench, realizing they never (or very rarely) actually benefitted what you were doing in any moment, anyway. But also that it wasn't ever up to you to stop clenching. So feel your body. See that life isn't up to you. It's up to God. And thus have real faith, that will come and go as it pleases, but perhaps it will appear more now that you see it's not up to you if it appears (while also seeing you can't help but try).

[@danieldreamsdigital]

Please can you share the name of the music piece? Thank you

[@Baktrianos]

Serenade a Notre dame de Paris Amaria (There are accents everywhere cuz French, but you should find it)

[@danieldreamsdigital]

@@Baktrianos thank you

[@BRAVEONPRECIOUS]

Peace. Seek her and let her truth take you unconditionally 🩵🕊️🩵

[@djjerome]

These might as well be quotes from the Upanishads 😊🙏

[@steelgila]

Kinda what I always say about the Gospel of Thomas.

[@jcd3869]

and Sufi's and the Buddha

[@jesuswept7408]

In the midst of these profound quotes a guy interrupts and tells me how I can make loads of money if I follow him 😂😂😂

[@lassetlasset]

Good quotes, bad reading and, I guess, bad choice of music. I love the the quotes, but I prefer to read them myself with the sound muted 😊

[@Commander_Appo]

[funny Eckhart’s Ladder reference]

[@maciej.ratajczak]

Eckhart's ladder? Are you referring to the quote about going to hell to have your ego (your memories and attachments) stripped away by angels/demons? Taking psychedelics is like dying (going to hell). The experience strips away your ego.

[@Raymond-d2l7n]

"It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you." Supposing, however, I don't find Meister Eckhart comforting? Still, I actually do find him comforting, I must admit. This business of 'letting go' reminds me of one of the principles of AA, Let Go and Let God.

[@kaatkate9270]

❤🙇

[@Richard-iz3zk]

Wonderful quotes but the music distracts from the purity of the thought that dwells best in silence. The piano is not a sacred instrument and didn't even exist in the time of Eckhardt. I'm a classical musician (sacred music) so am certainly not against music. Thank you for providing the quote in text and the beautiful artwork. It lets me meditate in peace on Eckhardt's thoughts. The narration is also well done.

[@mortalclown3812]

🤦

[@jarom_n]

What a strange take.

[@jcd3869]

One of your "roles" is a "classical musician" but "you" are not a classical musician. Your history lesson on the lack of a presence of a piano and who you "are" misses the whole central point of his teachings. "We" are not our "roles in life". We are the immovable hinge, not the door(roles in life move are temporary). God is not who other humans tell us he is. It is up to us to find it uniquely inside of us by shedding thoughts, concepts, career, degrees, roles, titles, education, class, religion, ideas of God etc. Once you learn to shed all this noise what is left is the real "you", not a classical musician. For more do some research on "emptiness" in Buddist non-religious teachings. Same thing. Until our cup is empty we can never truly find ourselves and God. Your cup sounds like it is still full of your existing concepts of yourself, and of things. Good luck on emptying the cup so it may be filled again.

[@percubit10]

He is ni master of mine. I am my own master. I listen to my soul and my intuition. My soul always knows.

[@briancornish2076]

'Dear God, teach me to forget God.' He is supposed to have prayed that.

[@SolveEtCoagula93]

The quote, from one of his sermons is, 'God save me from God'. He is telling us to forget ALL the images we have of God because our minds cannot comprehend what such a Being is. ANY image we have will hold us back from and prevent us surrendering to the Truth. Instead of holding a false image, generated by a human mind, forget everything you think you know. Throw away limited ideas and open to that which is beyond 'knowing'.

[@taylordw]

It’s reminiscent of the Buddhist saying: if you encounter the Buddha while walking on a path in the forest, kill him

[@AnaRodriguez-ry8ix]

🌊💙🙏🕯

[@not2tees]

"How dearly I long for human voices, after the desert of AI voices . . . "

[@Thothschild]

If you guys don't see the comedy in the rich fecund truths of Meister Eckhart being read...by AI voice emulators. Yeowch. It literally kinda puts the transhumanist doctrine ahead of the idea that the Logos is uttered by the First Breath... Wakka wakka..

[@rogeraraujo4900]

As a christian it's really fun to think that way. I think we're trying to give birth to God by means of AI. We saw in history that humans are horrible to rule egalitarian societies (URSS) and the Open AI CEO have already played with the Idea that we could put an AGI to govern a socialist state. He's a specialist in fear mongering, but, besides that, I can see this as a transhumanist tendency. Be blessed. Meister Eckhart is a beatiful mystic!

[@gonzothegreat1317]

@@rogeraraujo4900 Too bad, the God is not in the words.

[@aggnostik]

Oh please, please get rid of that vaudeville piano tinkering noise....start over!

[@loacoonian]

Must be may.

[@eternallight777]

I so enjoyed that he was an amazing, he was Christ in the flesh…. Him, Hafez, and profit Mani all His work. Because we’ve all been reincarnating I am actually all those people. And that’s exactly what’s in my heart. Unfortunately this world doesn’t want that they choose to worship the serpents rather than a Devine Creator who is love the spirit of truth and his conquered death more times than I can count never lifetime

[@timmysquidfingers]

AI voice really drags this down

[@RockerfellerRothchild1776]

So basically....Vedic philosophy

[@timmcfadden4653]

Wonderful quotes, but the music is inappropriate. I like the music, but it does not go with these quotes at all. You could try the music Samaneri Jayasara uses with her wonderful KZbin readings of Eckhart. Or at least Gregorian or Byzantine Chant.

[@maciej.ratajczak]

Great quotes and music, but terrible reading. I had to be the first person to thumb the video down for that. I'm pretty sure it's a computer generated voice. As a native English speaker, the mistakes bothered me; the speed could have been slower, too.

[@mortalclown3812]

Use the playback speed to control that. Use captions...or go get books if this is too painful for you to endure. 🤦

[@theawakeningheard410]

I had the same thought immediately. Also, why the music? Love the content but think the presentation is way off.

[@shari6063]

I agree. Grateful for the quotes. Sick to death of AI.

[@pobblebonk3]

Why not just read the quotes yourself instead of using a ridiculous AI voice? Surely Eckhart deserves a human voice

[@human5715]

The only thing that burns in hell is meister Eckhart? Damn.

[@rogeraraujo4900]

LMAO. No, bro! He's a really cool mystic.

[@jamessloan2680]

I don't think so.

[@heinmolenaar6750]

He sure was a great mystic​@@jamessloan2680

[@jcd3869]

Your a sick puppy full of human thoughts to say this. But I wish you well in your healing.

[@thomasj.loebel9809]

False thoughts called "not" god

[@ultrasignificantfootnote3378]

I think Eckhart was an Atheist , he came to realise God is mere imaginairy.

[@Rusty69-er]

Thinking is not your forte

[@LaniJeb96960]

Did Meister Eckhart have a NDE or did he smoke DMT? lol ❤

[@arthurdanzi404]

Nope, he was an actual mystic. There have been lots of them in Christian history.

[@thebaryonacousticoscillati5679]

Nothing so mundane :)

[@amyrenee1361]

I've survived suicide, I saw nothing. In 2015, I smoked DMT, I was told that I was God, and that life was all an illusion. On Valentine's Day 2020, I felt remorse thinking about my ex boyfriend, because it dawned on me that I was not innocent in the relationship and that I must have been very difficult to deal with. I felt a deep sadness for the lack of love I showed him and I told him that it wasn't what I wanted to be. When I hung up the phone , I was suddenly transported into a vision of myself on a cross. Like I was literally nailed to a cross and looking down at my feet as I hung there. Then electricity flowed up and burst through me and I was surrounded in golden white light with an image of Jesus above me. I heard a voice say : There is one God, just one God. And my life has been changing dramatically ever since. It is painful at times, and I often feel like I'm running around a dark cave looking for a light. Something is happening to me, and I relate very much with Paul's epistles. I feel like I am being poked and prodded, a clay put into fire. I remain completely sober because I want to experience it all unadulterated. I still don't know who, what, when, how, or why... but I am submitting to my experience.

[@roselotusmystic]

DoBeDoBeDo . . .

[@JavierBonillaC]

Hemorrhoids?

[@lazarus8011]

What 😂😂😂

[@fatihkiratli4030]

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