Meister Eckhart Love Quotations

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

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

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself, you will not succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is the great righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me.