Meister Eckhart Quotes - Page 4

I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.

Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.

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 holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.

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

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

The more we have the less we own.

Every creature is a word of God.

A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, am I right or am I wrong? One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.

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 I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

God is at home. We are in the far country.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

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 it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.