Meister Eckhart Quotes

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.

All of it is God, and there is nothing else.

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

I am become a transparent eyeball.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

This is the world of One Taste, with no inside and no outside, no subject and no object, no in here versus out there, without means, without path and without goal. And this, as Ramana said, is the final truth.

The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today, and each and every one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude rather than an exploitative attitude, if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness and to learn to love all living beings.