Meister Eckhart Quotes

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

The first step to living the life you want is leaving the life you don't want. Taking that first step forward is always the hardest. But then each step forward gets easier and easier. And each step forward gets you closer and closer. Until eventually, what had once been invisible, starts to be visible. And what had once felt impossible, starts to feel possible.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.