Meister Eckhart Quotes

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

The only journey is the one within.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Man is a universe within himself.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

I want people to find their inner depth.

There is a very pensive and intense side to me that even I did not know someone could capture.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.