Inspirational Quotes by Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

— Meister Eckhart

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

— Meister Eckhart

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

— Meister Eckhart

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

— Meister Eckhart

That's all an angel is…an idea of God.

— Meister Eckhart

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

— Meister Eckhart

Action and becoming are one.

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what…

— Meister Eckhart

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

— Meister Eckhart

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do…

— Meister Eckhart

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

— 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

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

— Meister Eckhart

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which…

— Meister Eckhart

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or…

— 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

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is…

— 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

As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not…

— 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

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

— Meister Eckhart

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— 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

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

— 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

Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.

— Meister Eckhart

Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart