Meister Eckhart Quotes

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

Every creature is a word of God.

All blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

God is the word that speaks itself.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

God is not good, or else he could do better.

If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.

Words derive their power from the original word.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

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

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

He is conscious only of God ... To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

That's all an angel is ... an idea of God.

As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.

The more deeply we are our true selves,
the less self is in us.

To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

God is at home. We are in the far country.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

There is no stopping place in this life
nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Action and becoming are one.

There's a place in the soul where you've never been wounded.

God is greater than God.

Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself ... and let God be God in you

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him ... It has nothing in common with anything created.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me ... If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.