Meister Eckhart

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

“You shall love compassion in such a way that you do not see how others get along.”

“True love is what comes through us when we no longer want anything for ourselves.”

“He who is a true man enjoys what is given to him; but he who lives to himself, is to himself a corpse.”

“Whoever wishes to come to God should not come through emptiness, but through fullness.”

“Wonder is the seed of knowledge.”

“What you see is what you become.”

“Behold, the soul is so simple that it has but one single act.”

“In the soul's deepest place is its quietest. And it is in this stillness that God is born in the soul.”

“He who would do well must finish his works in the present moment.”

“There where time never enters, where no image shines in, in the innermost part of the soul, there God creates the whole world.”

“He who would be saved must look within.”

“For he must find all things in himself.”

“As long as you accept anything but God, you have no peace.”

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

“For God is the truth.”

“Apart from the truth, He is nothing.”

“What we know of God when we go to school, we shall not know in the kingdom of heaven.”

“In the highest things there is nothing that one can express in words.”