Meister Eckhart Quotes

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

I would much rather be asked, why I do not have one, than why I do have one.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Material things don't matter.

And plenty makes us poor.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I already own more than any human being needs.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

We don't need an abundance of things.

I have no use for eight houses, 88 cars and 500 suits. I can't eat but one steak at a time. I don't want but one woman. It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

The more you own, the more it owns you.

The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

I'm happy without money.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.