Meister Eckhart Quotes

Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.

This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind as us, we are identified with it. This death of mind never happens to us, it never occurs to us.

The disciplined are free.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Freedom is from within.

Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

It is not the mind, but the heart that makes free.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.

Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

Only if you are joyful, you can be free from the fruit of action.

Interior liberty is universal.

Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.