Meister Eckhart Quotes

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

I love silence.

Silence is the most powerful state.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.