Meister Eckhart

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter.…

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me...”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the…

— Meister Eckhart

What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do…

— Meister Eckhart

Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from…

— Meister Eckhart

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us…

— Meister Eckhart

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and…

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin…

— Meister Eckhart

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all…

— Meister Eckhart

Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must…

— Meister Eckhart

The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe…

— Meister Eckhart

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself,…

— Meister Eckhart

“in this way, seek wrongly, and the further they range, the less they find what they are looking for. They proceed like…

— Meister Eckhart

“I mean those who cling to their own egos in their penances and external devotions, which such people regard as being of…

— Meister Eckhart

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular…

— Meister Eckhart

I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and…

— Meister Eckhart

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't…

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

— Meister Eckhart

Gods gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver.

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

— Meister Eckhart

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now ...

— Meister Eckhart