Meister Eckhart

"The soul's greatest adventure is the journey to God."

"All division is illusion; all is one in God."

"True courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."

"The heart of prayer is gratitude."

"God is closer to us than we are to ourselves."

"A compassionate person is most like God."

"The soul that seeks God finds itself."

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

"Whoever finds peace within themselves stops fighting with others."

"A person should be so poor that they are nothing, know nothing, and want nothing."

"God is in the innermost depths of all things."

"The more we have, the more we are occupied. The more we own, the more it owns us."

"Stop seeking God outside yourself; He dwells within."

"All that a person can find in this earthly life are fragments and shadows."

"When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws out an image of the experience."

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

"The divine light is always in man, imaging itself in the splendor of his being."

"A person must become poor and empty to receive the fullness of God."

"Every creature is full of God and is a book about God."

"The kingdom of God belongs to the childlike, not to those bound by knowledge."

"A just person serves all creatures and serves them willingly."

"Love is like a small spark that becomes a great fire."

"We are all meant to be contemplatives in the midst of action."

"The greatest deception is to think that one knows something."

"In true love, the boundary between self and other dissolves."

"All suffering comes from attachment to temporal things."

"God is being itself, not something that has being."

"The soul is as great as that which it loves."

"A pure and virtuous soul cannot be degraded by any external thing."

"True knowledge begins with wonder and questioning."