Meister Eckhart Quotes

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.

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

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.

The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

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 the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

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.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

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.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

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

The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.

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.

Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creating equality. Nor is there any pleasure without equality. Practice equality in human society. Learn to love, esteem, consider all people like yourself. What happens to another, be it bad or good, pain or joy, ought to be as if it happened to you.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.