Meister Eckhart Quotes

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.

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

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

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.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

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

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.