Meister Eckhart Quotes

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

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

The most important hour is always the present.
The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.
The most necessary work is always love.

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

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

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

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Between God and Me there is no ‘Between’.

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.

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.

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

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