“But many people want to look upon God with the eyes with which they look upon a cow; they want to love… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“How then should I love God?’ You should love God non-mentally, that is to say the soul should become non-mental and stripped… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to receive the body of our Lord does not need to scrutinize what they are feeling at the time or how great… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“But where is this true possession of God, whereby we really possess him, to be found? This real possession of God is to be… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image