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All Quotes by author - Meister Eckhart
" 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. "
Heart
Yourself
Soul
" A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice. "
Justice
Who
Just
" All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. "
Man
Wants
Heart
" Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. "
Felt
Would
You
" Every creature is a word of God. "
Creature
Word
God
" 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. "
Yourself
Far
God
" God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. "
Walk
Gone
God
" He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. "
One Thing
Who
He
" If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. "
She
Only
Himself
" If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. "
Thank You
Prayer
Life
" 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. "
Door
Always
Never
" 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. "
God
Better
Life
" Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. "
Write
Thing
Hand
" The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. "
Me
Eye
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. "
People
God
He
" The more we have the less we own. "
Less
More
Own
" The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. "
Man
Door
Hinge
" The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. "
Great
Will
Work
" The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. "
Mistake
Inaction
Far
" There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. "
Tomorrow
Yesterday
End
" To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. "
Things
Empty
Full
" 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. "
Sorrow
Light
Darkness
" 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
Father
Me
" What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. "
Out
Love
He
" What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. "
Brainy
Harvest
Plant
" When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. "
Order
Own
You
" Words derive their power from the original word. "
Original
Words
Derive
" You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. "
Name
You
Love
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