Best Quotes by Meister Eckhart (Top 10)

  1. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
  2. And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
  3. If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
  4. Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
  5. Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
  6. Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
  7. The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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