Quotes by Meister Eckhart

About Meister Eckhart:

Eckhart von Hochheim was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire.
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When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

Meister Eckhart

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Meister Eckhart

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

Meister Eckhart

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

Meister Eckhart

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Meister Eckhart

The more we have the less we own.

Meister Eckhart

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Meister Eckhart

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

Meister Eckhart

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

Meister Eckhart

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

Meister Eckhart

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

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

Meister Eckhart

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They d...

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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

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Meister Eckhart

Alle Dinge müssen, der Mensch allein ist das Wesen, welches will.

Meister Eckhart

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 penetra...

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Author Bio

  • NameMeister Eckhart
  • DescriptionGerman theologian
  • Born1260
  • Died1328
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Theologian