Meister Eckhart Quotes

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Words derive their power from the original word.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.