Meister Eckhart Quotes

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

Hobbies-wise, I love to carp fish. I like to be on the bank when I have some downtime.

But I love to fish - that's a hobby of mine.

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until you realize you don't need it anymore, because after a certain point it becomes a hindrance.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

In my soul, I am free.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.