Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
One who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
All grief except grief for sin comes from love of the world. In God is neither sorrow, nor grief, nor trouble. Wouldst thou be free from all grief and trouble, abide and walk in God, and to God alone. As long as love of the creature is in us, pain cannot cease.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
