Meister Eckhart

"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The more you own, the more it will own you."

"Beauty is the radiance of truth."

"Do not imagine that substance means inward certitude. Substance is the stripping away of all that is not essential."

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

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

"All creatures are words of God."

"Detachment is the highest nobility among virtues."

"The busier you are, the further you are from God."

"Nothing is so like God as silence."

"What happens outside me is not as important as what happens inside me."

"The eye of the soul can only see and hear when the mind is at rest."

"A teacher is one who makes themselves empty so that others may be filled."

"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake."

"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit."

"God needs nothing from creation but offers everything to it."

"There is nothing so whole as a broken heart."

"To love is to give oneself completely to another."

"The most powerful prayer is to realize you need nothing."

"Art is the effort to render the invisible visible."

"Only the brave have room in their hearts for death."

"Creatures are not other than God; they are God in manifestation."

"Where the soul is full of love, it loses all fear."

"The greatest ignorance is to reject something you do not understand."

"Time spent in useless pursuits robs the soul of its freedom."

"To yield is to triumph; to resist is to fail."

"The soul that is attached to anything, however lightly, cannot fly toward God."

"All suffering comes from attachment to what cannot be held."

"In the mirror of love, one sees the face of God."

"Truth is not found in words but in silence."

"The soul's greatest power lies in its capacity for surrender."