Meister Eckhart Quotes

“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.”

“The ultimate truth is wordless. The silent language of God is the only language worth speaking.”

“Do not cling to the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

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

“The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.”

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

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”

“When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.”

“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.”

“If the only prayer you said was 'Thank you,' that would be enough.”

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

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

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

“The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.”

“The soul forgets itself when I ponder your grace; it is like being in love, discovering what we already were only much later.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“The way to God is God.”

“Give yourself up, go to God, and let Him take you in His arms, and let Him do with you in His sweetness, and in His wonderful sweetness.”

“If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always be come among us, for His will never leads to sin.”

“There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.”