The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. Meister Eckhart More Quotes by Meister Eckhart More Quotes From Meister Eckhart In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same. Meister Eckhart creatures I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good. Meister Eckhart good-lifecircleswish The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God. Meister Eckhart growing-upchristianwise One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be. Meister Eckhart solitudemay The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering. Meister Eckhart sufferingperfectionbears Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones. Meister Eckhart gift-from-godall-timeready The greatest power available to man is not to use it. Meister Eckhart availableusemen If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living. Meister Eckhart live-lifespringyears It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being. Meister Eckhart savedaction Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth! Meister Eckhart symbols Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. Meister Eckhart achievepeoplefirsts The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions. Meister Eckhart notionultimateleaving There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is. Meister Eckhart valorfightingwould-be In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things. Meister Eckhart increasecausesmoving 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 soulheartinspirational There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created. Meister Eckhart soulcommon The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present. Meister Eckhart tasksspiritualmen When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches. Meister Eckhart richeskingdomsthinking This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator. Meister Eckhart gracefaithbeautiful If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. Meister Eckhart filledcreationsoul
