Quotes by Meister Eckhart

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever o...”

“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”

“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...”

“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.”

“I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!”

“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 pl...”

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”

“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.”

“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 b...”

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”

“The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.”

“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

“God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”