Meister Eckhart

“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

“God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.”

“The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one who is sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.”

“Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God.”

“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”

“When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.”

“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”

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

“People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are.”

“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”

“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”

“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”