Meister Eckhart

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making…

— Meister Eckhart

“A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as…

— Meister Eckhart

Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love,…

— Meister Eckhart

You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God…

— Meister Eckhart

The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be…

— Meister Eckhart

The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the…

— Meister Eckhart

A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those…

— Meister Eckhart

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

— 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

Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is…

— Meister Eckhart

“We should rest content with nothing, however good it may seem or be, so that, when we find ourselves under pressure or…

— Meister Eckhart

The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to…

— Meister Eckhart

“How can we be directly in God, neither striving nor seeking for anything other than him, and how can we be so…

— Meister Eckhart

The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may…

— Meister Eckhart

“For we should be as our Lord told us: “You should be like those who at all times watch and wait for…

— Meister Eckhart

“There are people who savour God in one way but not in another, and they want to possess God according to one…

— Meister Eckhart

“In Islam, and especially among the Sufi Orders, siyahat or 'errance' - the action or rhythm of walking - was used as…

— Meister Eckhart

“Obedience need never be anxious, for there is no form of goodness which it does not possess in itself. When we go…

— Meister Eckhart

“You should not imagine that your reason can evolve to the extent of understanding God. Rather, if God is to shine divinely…

— Meister Eckhart

“God, who is faithful, allows his friends to fall frequently into weakness only in order to remove from them any prop on…

— Meister Eckhart

“It is not enough for us to perform the works of virtue, exercising obedience, excepting poverty or disgrace or practicing humility or…

— Meister Eckhart