65 Meaningful Quotes By Meister Eckhart For A New Lease Of Life

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

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.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

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

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

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

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

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

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

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

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.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

Run into peace.

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

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

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.

Every creature is a word of God.

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

The more we have the less we own.

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