Meister Eckhart Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

“What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.”

“One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.”

“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.”

“A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.”

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

“Words derive their power from the original word.”