Meister Eckhart Quotes.
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.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
Between God and Me there is no ‘Between’.
The more we have the less we own.
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 bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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 or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
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.
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Every creature is a word of God.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.
