Top 200 Meister Eckhart Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

105. “There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

107. “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

108. “Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.”

— Meister Eckhart

109. “The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.”

— Meister Eckhart

110. “Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.”

— Meister Eckhart

111. “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.”

— Meister Eckhart

112. “There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

114. “God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

116. “No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

118. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

119. “Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God’s image that they see.”

— Meister Eckhart

120. “When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.”

— Meister Eckhart

121. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

122. “One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.”

— Meister Eckhart

123. “As St Denys says: they speak most beautifully of God who can maintain the deepest silence concerning him in the fullness of their inner wealth.21.”

— Meister Eckhart

124. “Words derive their power from the original word.”

— Meister Eckhart

125. “Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.”

— Meister Eckhart

126. “The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.”

— Meister Eckhart

127. “They who can go without all things, not needing them, are far more blessed than they who possess them in their need. That person is the best who can do without what they do not need.”

— Meister Eckhart

128. “The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.”

— Meister Eckhart

129. “Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.”

— Meister Eckhart

130. “We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.”

— Meister Eckhart

131. “Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.”

— Meister Eckhart

132. “What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.”

— Meister Eckhart

133. “The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”

— Meister Eckhart

134. “Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.”

— Meister Eckhart

135. “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.”

— Meister Eckhart

136. “I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!”

— Meister Eckhart

137. “Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.”

— Meister Eckhart

138. “One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.”

— Meister Eckhart

139. “Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.”

— Meister Eckhart

140. “Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!”

— Meister Eckhart

141. “If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.”

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142. “What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.”

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143. “Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.”

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144. “The greatest power available to man is not to use it.”

— Meister Eckhart

145. “The most powerful form of prayer, and the one which can virtually gain all things and which is the worthiest work of all, is that which flows from a free mind. The freer the mind is, the more powerful and worthy, the more useful, praiseworthy and perfect the prayer and the work become. A free mind can achieve all things.”

— Meister Eckhart

146. “We should be able to recognize true and perfect love by whether or not someone has great hope and confidence in God, for there is nothing that testifies more clearly to perfect love than trust.”

— Meister Eckhart

147. “People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctified our works.”

— Meister Eckhart

148. “Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God’s possession.”

— Meister Eckhart

149. “This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.”

— Meister Eckhart

150. “Truly, if someone were to renounce a kingdom or the whole world while still holding on to themselves, then they would have renounced nothing at all.”

— Meister Eckhart