Quotes from Meister Eckhart

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

God is the word that speaks itself.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

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.

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

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

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

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.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order

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

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

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

Words derive their power from the original word.

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

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.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.