Meister Eckhart May Quotations

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

Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

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