Meister Eckhart Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.”

“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

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

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

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

“The more we have the less we own.”

“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”

“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”