Meister Eckhart Quotes

• The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

  Meister Eckhart

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

  Meister Eckhart

• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

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

  Meister Eckhart

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

  Meister Eckhart

• He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

  Meister Eckhart

• 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.

  Meister Eckhart

• Every creature is a word of God.

  Meister Eckhart

• Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

  Meister Eckhart

• All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

  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.

  Meister Eckhart

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Birth:	1260
Death:	1327
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher, Theologian

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