Top 200 Meister Eckhart Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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110. “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

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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

118. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

120. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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123. “The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.”

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

136. “If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour.”

— Meister Eckhart

137. “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

138. “In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.”

— Meister Eckhart

139. “There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.”

— Meister Eckhart

140. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

142. “If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: ‘Why are you living?’ life, if it could answer, would only say, ‘I live so that I may live.’ That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.”

— Meister Eckhart

143. “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

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144. “Run into peace.”

— Meister Eckhart

145. “Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.”

— Meister Eckhart

146. “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

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Meister Eckhart

150. “All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.”

— Meister Eckhart