Meister Eckhart

"Knowledge is the highest joy."

"The soul must turn inward to find the divine light."

"To flee vice is not virtue, but rather it is the beginning of virtue."

"Where there is fear, there can be no freedom."

"The just person is not afraid of God."

"Love is the bridge that connects the human soul to the divine."

"A pure heart is a mirror of God."

"Eternity does not begin when time ends."

"The hand that follows intellect can achieve more than the intellect alone."

"True prayer requires the annihilation of self."

"All creatures are united in the Godhead."

"The greatest prayer is patience."

"To find peace, one must surrender all desire."

"God does not have chosen friends; he has chosen people."

"The most powerful prayer is simple and wordless."

"Wisdom is the restoration of all things."

"A person who lives in love never utters an untruth."

"The deepest truth is God's silence."

"Man's perfection consists in emptiness and poverty."

"To know oneself is to know God."

"Beauty is the radiance of truth."

"The soul is so noble and precious that few can understand her."

"Every good person is a temple of God."

"True vision is to see God in all things."

"Creatures are something, and God is something else; yet God is in all creatures."

"The just person acts out of justice, not from fear of punishment."

"A person should be so detached that he affects neither joy nor sorrow."

"The light of the soul is God's light."

"All suffering comes from attachment and desire."

"To die before you die is to live when you die."