Meister Eckhart Quotes

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

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

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

God is equally near in all creatures.

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

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

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

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

God is greater than God.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

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

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

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

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

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

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

The more we have the less we own.

God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

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

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

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

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

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

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.

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

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

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.