Johannes Eckhart citáty
Johannes Eckhart
Datum narození: 1260
Datum úmrtí: 1328
Další jména: Mistr Eckhart, Eckhart
Mistr Eckhart byl německý teolog, filosof a dominikán, známý především jako mystický spisovatel a představitel platonizující metafyziky. Jeho německá kázání, určená zejména řeholnicím, měla velký vliv na městskou zbožnost pozdního středověku i na vývoj německého jazyka.
Citáty Johannes Eckhart
„Jestliže se tedy měním v boha a on mě činí zajedno s sebou, pak, u živého boha, nelze rozlišovat mezi námi… Někteří lidé si představují, že boha spatří, jako by on stál onde a oni zde, ale tak tomu nebude. Bůh a já jedno jsme. Tím, že boha poznávám, přivádím ho k sobě, láskou k němu v něj pronikám.“
Zdroj: [Mistr Eckhart, Harper and Brothers, New York, 1941], citace a zdroj převzaty z FROMM Erich, Umění milovat, Nakladatelství Josefa Šimona, Praha 1996, ISBN 80-85637-26-X
„Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.“
Sermon VI : Sanctification
Kontext: Sanctification is the best of all things, for it cleanses the soul, and illuminates the conscience, and kindles the heart, and wakens the spirit, and girds up the loins, and glorifies virtue and separates us from creatures, and unites us with God. The quickest means to bring us to perfection is suffering; none enjoy everlasting blessedness more than those who share with Christ the bitterest pangs. Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered. The surest foundation in which this perfection may rest is humility; whatever here crawls in the deepest abjectness, that the Spirit lifts to the very heights of God, for love brings suffering and suffering brings love.
„Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God.“
As quoted in Men Who Have Walked with God (1992) by Sheldon Cheney, p. 198
Kontext: Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God.... To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.
„The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.“
Sermon IV : True Hearing
Zdroj: Sermons of Meister Eckhart
Kontext: The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills. If he were ill he would not wish to be well. If he really abides in God's will, all pain is to him a joy, all complication, simple: yea, even the pains of hell would be a joy to him. He is free and gone out from himself, and from all that he receives, he must be free. If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour. The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
„If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.“
Very commonly attributed to Eckhart on the internet and some publications, but the earliest source yet located is A Bucket of Surprises (2002) by J. John and Mark Stibbe Variants: If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.
Disputed
Varianta: If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
