Meister Eckhart Quotes

We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.

There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

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.

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.

I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.

God is not good, or else he could do better.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.