Top 200 Meister Eckhart Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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3. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

5. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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7. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

8. “God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

10. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

11. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

12. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

13. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

15. “Compassion is where peace and justice kiss.”

— Meister Eckhart

16. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

17. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

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18. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

19. “To the quiet mind all things are possible.”

— Meister Eckhart

20. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

23. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

24. “Every creature is a word of God.”

— Meister Eckhart

25. “The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.”

— Meister Eckhart

26. “Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.”

— Meister Eckhart

27. “God is greater than God.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

30. “The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.”

— Meister Eckhart

31. “Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

34. “No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.”

— Meister Eckhart

35. “A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.”

— Meister Eckhart

36. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

37. “Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.”

— Meister Eckhart

38. “It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

— Meister Eckhart

39. “Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”

— Meister Eckhart

40. “Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

42. “This then is salvation – when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.”

— Meister Eckhart

43. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

45. “As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.”

— Meister Eckhart

46. “Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”

— Meister Eckhart

47. “God cannot know himself without me.”

— Meister Eckhart

48. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

49. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

50. “There is no stopping place in this life – nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one’s gone.”

— Meister Eckhart