Meister Eckhart

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

This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

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.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order

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. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.