Quotes from Meister Eckhart

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.

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.

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.

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

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.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

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.

Every creature is a word of God.

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

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.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

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.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.