Meister Eckhart Quotes

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart

Religion, Life, Enough

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

Felt, Secure, Exactly

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Inspirational, Yourself, Heart

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
Meister Eckhart

Home, God, Walk

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

End, Tomorrow, Present

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart

Sympathy, Light, Darkness

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart

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

Far, Making, Mistake

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart

God, Heart, Wants

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

Action, Shall, Reap

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart

God, Full, Empty

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

Love, God, Best

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

Needs, Pure, Detachment

The more we have the less we own.
Meister Eckhart

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Meister Eckhart

God, Yourself, Far

Every creature is a word of God.
Meister Eckhart

God, Word, Creature

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart

God, Father, Place

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Meister Eckhart

Attitude, Order, Thwarted

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart

Love, Takes, Pours

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

Life, God, Person

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart

True, Write, Hand

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

Justice, Person

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart

Work, Great, Inward

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart

God, Soul, Whole

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

Door, Inner, Swinging

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: 1260

Died: 1328

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