Top 100 Meister Eckhart Quotes
#1. 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.
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#3. He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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#4. 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.
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#5. The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
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#6. Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.
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#7. We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.
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#9. Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.
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#10. The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
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#11. Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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#12. Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.
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#13. Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.
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#14. You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.
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#15. A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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#16. The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.
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#17. When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
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#18. And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
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#19. Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.
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#21. Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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#22. God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
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#23. our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.
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#25. This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
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#26. I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
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#28. 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.
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#29. There is no better advice on how to find God than to seek him where we left him: do now, when you cannot find God, what you did when last you had him, and then you will find him again.
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#31. There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him ... It has nothing in common with anything created.
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#32. Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
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#33. Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.
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#34. Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
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#36. The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
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#37. Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
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#38. The more deeply we are our true selves,
the less self is in us.
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#39. Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.
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#40. Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.
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#41. A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.
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#42. Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.
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#43. 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.
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#44. No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
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#45. If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.
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#46. The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
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#48. All blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.
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#49. God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
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#50. Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
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#51. You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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#52. If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough.
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#53. He is conscious only of God ... To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
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#54. This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
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#55. For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
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#57. In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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#58. There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.
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#60. Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
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#62. The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
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#63. But of God you can never have a sufficiency. The more you have of God, the more you desire. If you could ever have enough of God, so that you were content with him, then God would not be God.
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#64. Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
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#65. People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are.
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#66. The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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#67. No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
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#68. Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall ... everything.
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#69. The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.
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#70. When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.
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#71. The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
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#72. There is no stopping place in this life
nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.
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#74. We should not content ourselves with a God of thoughts for, when the thoughts come to an end, so too shall God. Rather, we should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures. That kind of God will not leave us, unless we ourselves choose to turn away from him.
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#75. I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
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#76. A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
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#80. This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
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#81. What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.
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#82. And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
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#84. 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.
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#85. God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
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#88. 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.
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#89. 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.
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#90. Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.
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#91. There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
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#92. For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
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#93. To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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#94. Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.
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#95. The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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#96. We are all meant to be mothers of God ... for God is always needing to be born.
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#97. Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
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#98. If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
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#100. What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
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