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.
Meister EckhartTherefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.
Meister EckhartThe love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
Meister EckhartIf anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
Meister EckhartA man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
Meister Eckhart