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I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
— Meister Eckhart
This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
— Meister Eckhart
Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.
— Meister Eckhart
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
— Meister Eckhart
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
— Meister Eckhart
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
— Meister Eckhart
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
— Meister Eckhart
Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
— Meister Eckhart
Every creature is a word of God.
— Meister Eckhart
Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.
— Meister Eckhart
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.
— Meister Eckhart
This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
— Meister Eckhart
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
— Meister Eckhart
our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.
— Meister Eckhart
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
— Meister Eckhart
God is equally near in all creatures.
— Meister Eckhart
Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
— Meister Eckhart
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
— Meister Eckhart
The greatest power available to man is not to use it.
— Meister Eckhart
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
— Meister Eckhart
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
— Meister Eckhart
Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
— Meister Eckhart
As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.
— Meister Eckhart
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
— Meister Eckhart
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[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
— Meister Eckhart
It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
— Meister Eckhart
The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
— Meister Eckhart
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
— Meister Eckhart
God is the word that speaks itself.
— Meister Eckhart
The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
— Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
— Meister Eckhart
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
— Meister Eckhart
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.
— Meister Eckhart
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
— Meister Eckhart
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
— Meister Eckhart
That's all an angel is ... an idea of God.
— Meister Eckhart
When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
— Meister Eckhart
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.
— Meister Eckhart
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
— Meister Eckhart
People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
— Meister Eckhart
As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
— Meister Eckhart
The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us. — Meister Eckhart
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
— Meister Eckhart
You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
— Meister Eckhart
To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.
— Meister Eckhart
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
— Meister Eckhart
Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
— Meister Eckhart
When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
— Meister Eckhart
God is at home. We are in the far country.
— Meister Eckhart
God cannot know himself without me.
— Meister Eckhart
There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.
— Meister Eckhart
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
— Meister Eckhart
By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.
— Meister Eckhart
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.
— Meister Eckhart
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
— Meister Eckhart
To grasp God in all thingsthis is the sign of your new birth. — Meister Eckhart
What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
— Meister Eckhart
For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
— Meister Eckhart
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
— Meister Eckhart
For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
— Meister Eckhart
Words derive their power from the original word.
— Meister Eckhart
You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.
— Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
— Meister Eckhart
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
— Meister Eckhart
God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready
— Meister Eckhart
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.
— Meister Eckhart
I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
— Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough.
— Meister Eckhart
God is not good, or else he could do better.
— Meister Eckhart
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
— Meister Eckhart
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
— Meister Eckhart
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.
— Meister Eckhart
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
— Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
— Meister Eckhart
He is conscious only of God ... To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
— Meister Eckhart
God is voluptuous and delicious. - Meister Eckhart
— Matthew Fox
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
— Meister Eckhart
Relation is the essence of everything that exists.
— Meister Eckhart
To the quiet mind all things are possible.
— Meister Eckhart
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
— Meister Eckhart
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.
— Meister Eckhart
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.
— Meister Eckhart
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
— Meister Eckhart
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
— Meister Eckhart
The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
— Meister Eckhart
The more we have the less we own.
— Meister Eckhart
