Top 200 Meister Eckhart Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.”

— Meister Eckhart

52. “Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don’t worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.”

— Meister Eckhart

53. “Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.”

— Meister Eckhart

54. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

55. “Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness.”

— Meister Eckhart

56. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

57. “Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.”

— Meister Eckhart

58. “To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.”

— Meister Eckhart

59. “If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

61. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

62. “To grasp God in all things – this is the sign of your new birth.”

— Meister Eckhart

63. “Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God’s will, you do not love Him.”

— Meister Eckhart

64. “The quieter the mind, the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.”

— Meister Eckhart

65. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

66. “Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.”

— Meister Eckhart

67. “The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.”

— Meister Eckhart

68. “The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.”

— Meister Eckhart

69. “We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.”

— Meister Eckhart

70. “I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.”

— Meister Eckhart

71. “God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.”

— Meister Eckhart

72. “Nobody at any time is cut off from God.”

— Meister Eckhart

73. “God is equally near in all creatures.”

— Meister Eckhart

74. “God is at his greatest when I am at my least.”

— Meister Eckhart

75. “Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.”

— Meister Eckhart

76. “People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

78. “Relation is the essence of everything that exists.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

80. “I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

82. “God is not good, or else he could do better.”

— Meister Eckhart

83. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

84. “I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.”

— Meister Eckhart

85. “Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.”

— Meister Eckhart

86. “I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.”

— Meister Eckhart

87. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

88. “All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

90. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

91. “Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.”

— Meister Eckhart

92. “To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.”

— Meister Eckhart

93. “Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

— Meister Eckhart

94. “If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.”

— Meister Eckhart

95. “God is at home. We are in the far country.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

98. “One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

100. “God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready.”

— Meister Eckhart