Meister Eckhart

“כל יצור כמוהו כספר מלא בחוכמתו של האל.”

“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”

“Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.”

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

“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”

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

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

“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”

“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”

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

“We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.”

“Words derive their power from the original word.”

“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.”

“The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

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

“He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.”

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

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