Meister Eckhart Quotes

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

I'll let life take me where it will.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

I have to not take myself too seriously and I have to realise that if it is meant to be, it will be.

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't "happiness", then what is?