Meister Eckhart Quotes

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being

What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

You will never go beyond the barriers in your own mind. If you think you can't do something, then you never will.

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

The greatest gift you can give a person is to wake them up to remind them of who the really are.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.