Meister Eckhart Quotes

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your life called 'outer', now try to look at another aspect of the journey called 'inner'. You have been running after money, now run after meditation. You have been running after power, now run after God. Both are running. Once you start running after meditation then one day I will tell you, 'Now drop meditation too. Now stop running.' And when you stop running then real meditation happens.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

I sometimes meditate.

I definitely have to pray and spend a lot of time by myself when I can.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.