Meister Eckhart Quotes

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

I would rather be dead than empty

The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.

You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself...If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes ... you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.

How boring just to be a body.

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.