Quotes from Meister Eckhart

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.

To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

God is not good, or else he could do better.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

That's all an angel is....an idea of God.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.