Top 100 Meister Quotes
#1. The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. - Meister Eckehart
Dan Millman
#2. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
#3. The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.
Terence McKenna
#4. Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#5. I always want to tell him everything. But
instead I said, "What's your advice, Horn -
meister?"
And he started doing pretend beard stroking
and said, "Well, luuurve is a many trousered
thing ...
Louise Rennison
#6. God is voluptuous and delicious. - Meister Eckhart
Matthew Fox
#7. Hotel's full up, I'm afraid, Mr. Roper, Jonathan rehearsed in another last-ditch effort to fend off the inevitable. Herr Meister is desolated. A temporary clerk has made an unpardonable error. However, we have managed to obtain rooms for you at the Baur au Lac, et cetera.
John Le Carre
#8. Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century spiritual teacher, summed it all up beautifully: "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.
Eckhart Tolle
#9. Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)
Madeleine L'Engle
#10. This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.
Norman Fell
#11. God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.
John Ortberg Jr.
#12. What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me. - Meister Eckhart
Matthew Fox
#13. 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
#15. When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.
Meister Eckhart
#16. One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.
Meister Eckhart
#17. He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
#18. The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
Meister Eckhart
#20. 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
#21. Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart
#22. My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
Meister Eckhart
#23. 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
#24. The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
Meister Eckhart
#25. Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
Meister Eckhart
#26. God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart
#27. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#28. In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.
Meister Eckhart
#30. We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.
Meister Eckhart
#31. What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart
#33. If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
Meister Eckhart
#34. There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.
Meister Eckhart
#35. For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
Meister Eckhart
#36. Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
Meister Eckhart
#38. Boredom will eventually set in ... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because all your bridges will have been burned ... The smaller you are, the larger and more terrifying the world. You should not be trying to reduce yourself so thoroughly.
Kristina Meister
#39. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#40. God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready
Meister Eckhart
#41. The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
Meister Eckhart
#42. Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
Meister Eckhart
#43. If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
#44. Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.
Meister Eckhart
#45. Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
Meister Eckhart
#46. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#47. The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart
#48. The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart
#49. You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.
Meister Eckhart
#50. A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
Meister Eckhart
#51. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#52. The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
Meister Eckhart
#53. To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.
Meister Eckhart
#54. Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.
Meister Eckhart
#55. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#56. That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.
Meister Eckhart
#57. This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.
Meister Eckhart
#58. When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
Meister Eckhart
#59. And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
Meister Eckhart
#60. If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
Meister Eckhart
#61. Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.
Meister Eckhart
#63. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#64. God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
Meister Eckhart
#65. There's a place in the soul where you've never been wounded.
Meister Eckhart
#66. our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.
Meister Eckhart
#68. 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
Meister Eckhart
#70. The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
Meister Eckhart
#71. To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
Meister Eckhart
#72. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#73. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#74. Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.
Meister Eckhart
#76. If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart
#77. To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart
#78. 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
#79. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#80. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#81. There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.
Meister Eckhart
#83. God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul
Meister Eckhart
#85. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#86. Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
Meister Eckhart
#87. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#88. The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.
Meister Eckhart
#89. Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.
Meister Eckhart
#90. Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
Meister Eckhart
#92. To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.
Meister Eckhart
#93. The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
Meister Eckhart
#94. Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
Meister Eckhart
#95. To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.
Meister Eckhart
#96. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify; but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other.
Meister Eckhart
#97. The more deeply we are our true selves,
the less self is in us.
Meister Eckhart
#98. 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.
Meister Eckhart
#99. Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
Meister Eckhart
#100. I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
Meister Eckhart
