To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not… — 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