Meister Eckhart Short Quotes

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter.

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God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

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The quickest horse that carries you to perfection is suffering.

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

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Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

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Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

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Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

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

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We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

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If the only prayer you say in your entire life is Thank You, that would suffice.

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God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.

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He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

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The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is.

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Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

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God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

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This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.

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Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

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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.

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He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

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There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

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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.

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This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

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A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

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Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God.... To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

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