The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2 Quotes

“It is not outside us: it is all within.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“Yet the now of time is infinitesimally small. If you remove the now of time, you are in all places and possess all time.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“It is the nature of the Word to reveal to me what has been hidden.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“Yet if someone comes to know something well, they soon tire of it and seek out something new, and repeat this pattern again and again, continually anxious to know new things, never lingering on what they've learned.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“We must withdraw, then, from all things, for when God works, he works without an image.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“God works with neither a medium nor an image, and the more you are without images, the more susceptible you will become to his work, and the more you forget and go within yourself, the closer you will be to him.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“This birth which takes place unceasingly in eternity is the very same birth which has taken place within human nature.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“The light is satisfied only in the innermost place, where no one dwells. It is within you even deeper than you are in yourself. It is the ground of simple silence that is motionless in itself. Yet from its stillness, all things move and all things receive their life, that they may live in accordance with this reason (vernunftecliche) and be conformed to it within themselves.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“An angel exists and works as an intelligence, and its state is one of beholding God ceaselessly, who is the object of its intellectual essence.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“St. John says, ". . . the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." (1:5) and "he came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. . ." (1:11-12)”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“This is also what was meant when that loving soul said, "I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer." (Song of Solomon 5:6)”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“And St. Paul knew this well when he said, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39)”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“Thus the soul's pursuit continues, for she holds to this knowing-by-unknowing.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“God did nothing more than this: he willed it, he spoke it, and it was.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“The more you are able to completely withdraw all your powers and forget all things―along with whatever images they have left in you―the farther you will travel away from created things and their images, and the closer and more receptive you will be to this birth. Were you to forget everything completely and be unaware of them, you would lose even the awareness of your own body, just as it occurred with St. Paul when he said, ". . . whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth. . ." (2 Corinthians 12:2)”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“St. Augustine said, "What good is it to me that this birth takes place ceaselessly if does not take place in me? If it is to be done, it is to be done within me.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“When earth discovered that its nature was unlike that of heaven and far from it, it fled from heaven to the lowest place it could find and remained there in stillness.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“If what is in the blood conquers the flesh, then one is humble, patient, chaste and has every virtue. If the flesh conquers the blood, however, one is proud, angry and shameless, having every kind of vice.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart

“Thus the word "I" means the purity of God's essence, as he is in himself, and is free and bare of any additional essences which are foreign to him, for they are created.”
― Meister Eckhart, The Kingdom of Heaven Within You, Vol 2: The Teachings of Meister Eckhart