Meister Eckhart quotes

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

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

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.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Every creature is a word of God.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Words derive their power from the original word.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

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.

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.

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