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.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
With the love of God, people will be able to accept and endure whatever happens to them. They will gently forget the harm that is done to them. There is nothing else in human experience that will bring you as close to God or form a more certain bond.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
No one of us desires anything so eagerly as God desires to bring us to the knowledge of Himself. God is always ready, but we are very unready. God is near us, but we are far from Him. God is within, and we are without. God is friendly — we are estranged.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
