Meister Eckhart Quotes - Page 6

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

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.

In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

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.

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

God is greater than God.

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

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

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.