Top 200 Meister Eckhart Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

55. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

59. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

62. “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

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. “God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

67. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

73. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

79. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

90. “If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

92. “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

93. “Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

95. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

98. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart