Want Quotes by Meister Eckhart

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

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

Action and becoming are one.

— Meister Eckhart

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

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

— Meister Eckhart

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

— Meister Eckhart

I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.

— Meister Eckhart

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

“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

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

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

— Meister Eckhart

Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

— Meister Eckhart