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Meister Eckhart Quotes

d. 1328 Germany

Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – 1328) was a German Monist philosopher, mystic, and theologian of the Catholic Church.

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Also known as: Eckhart, Eckhart, Meister, Meister Eckehart

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Variant: If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.

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The knower and the known are one.

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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

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However a quote very similar to this one can actually be found in his works. In Sermon XXVII (Walshe translation/in Quint Sermon XXXIV) we can read

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Meister Eckhart (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.