eckhart Quotes

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

“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.”

“When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”

“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.”

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

“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”