It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.
Meister EckhartThe love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
Meister EckhartFor a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
Meister EckhartThe human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
Meister Eckhart