I 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 EckhartSaint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me.
Meister EckhartWhen the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
Meister EckhartI am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
Meister Eckhart