Meister Eckhart Quotes

Some things were beyond understanding.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

Some things are beyond human understanding.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

The world is not always ours to understand.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty miles away.' 'Life is a mystery,' said Powdermill, with a gold-toothed grin. 'It is that, right enough,' agreed Huntsekker.