Explore Quotes by Meister Eckhart

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.

The most important hour is always the present. _x000D_The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. _x000D_The most necessary work is always love.

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.

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

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.

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

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

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.

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

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.

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

And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.