Meister Eckhart

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

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

"Whoever finds himself loses himself."

"Man's last and highest leave-taking is leaving God for God."

"There is nothing so much like God as silence."

"All that a man has here externally in time is nothing."

"When the soul wishes to experience something she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image."

"Detachment is the highest and loftiest thing man can achieve."

"A person should be so poor that he is not and has not a will wherein to accomplish the will of God."

"The more we have the less we own."

"We are made holy not by what we do but by what we believe."

"If you would be perfect, sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and follow me."

"A good person should be merciful and kind to every living being."

"Sloth is nothing but a sluggishness of the soul."

"The perfect person is empty of all things."

"God is in the innermost part of each thing."

"Time is what keeps everything from happening at once."

"The eye is the lamp of the body."

"A person should be so poor that he is not, has not, and knows not, and has not the knowledge of anything."

"Patience is a virtue that has little to do with time."

"Every creature is a word of God."

"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light."

"The Godhead is as pure as it ever was."

"Man should be poor and free as the birds are."

"The soul is in the spirit, and the spirit is in the soul."

"A truly wise and powerful person is humble."

"God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself."

"When the will is left alone and the spirit is silent, God speaks."

"Ignorance of self must precede the knowledge of God."

"Being is the most worthy thing that can be spoken of God."