Meister Eckhart Quotes

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

~ Meister Eckhart

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

~ Meister Eckhart

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

~ Meister Eckhart

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

~ Meister Eckhart

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

~ Meister Eckhart

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself, my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

~ Meister Eckhart

A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

~ Meister Eckhart

When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.

~ Meister Eckhart

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

~ Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

~ Meister Eckhart

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

~ Meister Eckhart

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

~ Meister Eckhart

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

~ Meister Eckhart

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

~ Meister Eckhart

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

~ Meister Eckhart

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

~ Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

~ Meister Eckhart

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

~ Meister Eckhart

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

~ Meister Eckhart

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

~ Meister Eckhart

Every creature is a word of God.

~ Meister Eckhart

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

~ Meister Eckhart

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

~ Meister Eckhart

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

~ Meister Eckhart