Meister Eckhart

"Life is a journey of becoming more fully human."

"The heart's wisdom often surpasses the mind's knowledge."

"In unity with God, all divisions dissolve."

"Patience is the art of waiting with hope and trust."

"The soul that surrenders to God gains everything."

"True power lies in knowing when not to act."

"Creativity is the human soul's participation in divine creation."

"The greatest inheritance is a good conscience."

"In love, the self is both lost and found."

"The universe is alive with the presence of the divine."

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

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

"Whoever has God lacks nothing, if only he loves God truly."

"A person should be so poor that he is not and has not and wants not and knows not."

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

"Detachment is the highest and holiest work."

"God is in the innermost part of each thing, the most inward."

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

"The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to work."

"If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough."

"A person should be so poor that he has no place where God can work."

"Knowing oneself is the foundation of all knowledge."

"God is continuously speaking, but we are not listening."

"The soul is as great as the thing it loves."

"When you let go of attachment, you find freedom in all things."

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

"Nothing is so like God as stillness and silence."

"The divine essence is not in anything, but everything is in the divine essence."

"One should love all people equally, regardless of merit."

"Break yourself open and let the goodness flow out."