Meister Eckhart Quotes - Page 3

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

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

What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

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

Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

Action and becoming are one.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

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.