Meister Eckhart Quotes

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.

Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover.

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.

Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us.

...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

The soul knows no persons.