A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
Meister Eckhart

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
Meister Eckhart

Every creature is a word of God.
Meister Eckhart

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Meister Eckhart

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
Meister Eckhart

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart


Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
Meister Eckhart

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
Meister Eckhart

The more we have the less we own.
Meister Eckhart

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart

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

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.
Meister Eckhart