Love Quotes by Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

— Meister Eckhart

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

— 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

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

— Meister Eckhart

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

— Meister Eckhart

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things…

— 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

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

— 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

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 must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel…

— Meister Eckhart

And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet…

— Meister Eckhart

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time…

— 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

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

— Meister Eckhart

“He came forth rejoicing as a bridegroom and suffered the pangs of love. Then He returned to His secret chamber in the…

— Meister Eckhart

Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are… And there can be no love where love does not find…

— Meister Eckhart

My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon…

— Meister Eckhart

Whoever wants to receive the body of our Lord does not need to scrutinize what they are feeling at the time or…

— Meister Eckhart

“Concerning this desert, Jeremiah writes: ‘I will lead my beloved into the wilderness and will speak to her in her heart’ (Hosea…

— Meister Eckhart

“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

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

— Meister Eckhart

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

— Meister Eckhart

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

— 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

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

— 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

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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