Meister Eckhart Quotes

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.

I believe divinity is within us.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

For until ye become as a savior, as a help to some soul that has lost hope, lost its way, ye do not fully comprehend the god within, the god without.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

People need to know that they are God. We mostly do not recognize that. We've lost the sense of our own divinity.

It is within you that the divine lives.

To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

I believe the word "infidel" is not particular to any religion. I believe we are all created in the image of God, in fact, we are all God, or at one with God, at our deepest core essence. I think "infidel" refers to one who does not believe that God is none other than the Self. The "infidel" is the individual personality who identifies with the body and thoughts and not the Divine Indweller. Therefore we are all "infidels" save the sacred few who have transcended the notion of the limited self. The ancient mystics of all tradtitions have said this.

Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence.

God is everywhere, and exists in us, through us, as us.

To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.

You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.

We're God too but we don't realise it.

Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?

For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.