Meister Eckhart

“God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.”

“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

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

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”

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

“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”

“God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.”

“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.”

“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”