Quotes from Meister Eckhart

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

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

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

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

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

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

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

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

Nobody at any time is cut off from God.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.