A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there

And so, too, I speak of love he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice

God’s gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you'? One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as he is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see