Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.
Meister EckhartGod must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn't act, as he wishes; who can will to do something or leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way with God: where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
Meister EckhartGod is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
Meister EckhartI have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
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 Eckhart