Meister Eckhart Quotes

Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

The stream is always purer at its source.

The simplest things are often the truest.

I'm a purist.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.

I don't like a whole lot of flash and superficial stuff; I want a woman that's all-natural, in her purest form.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

I've always aimed to create something pure.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you.

Speak the essence and live by it.

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Originality is a return to the origin.