The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
Meister EckhartThe human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
Meister EckhartNo man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.
Meister EckhartKnow that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.
Meister Eckhart