Meister Eckhart Quotes - Page 2

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

God cannot know himself without me.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

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.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.

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

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

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

Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul. If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.