Meister Eckhart Quotes

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

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.

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.

In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.

If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

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

Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.

God is the word that speaks itself.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

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.

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.

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

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

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

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

When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.

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

All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.

Words derive their power from the original word.

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

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

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

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

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

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

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

A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice.

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