All Meister Eckhart Quotes
- God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready Act
- It is in the darkness that one finds the light. Darkness
- The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is;… Accordingly
- Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me. Became
- If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the… Appearance
- If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself, you will not… Alike
- All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you All
- Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul. All
- Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do… Anything Contrary
- Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature,… Both
- To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to… Activities
- Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not… Affection
- Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us… Depends
- Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth! Cling
- God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as… All
- The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the… Good
- God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. Dam
- This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what… Been
- In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for… All
- Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground. Even Stones
- Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside. Full
- Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors,… All
- That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love. Acquires
- When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me. Attachment
- The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then… Aflame