A recent return to meditating with Meister Eckhart

"Apprehend God in all things,
for God is in all things.

Every single creature is full of God
and is a book about God.

Every creature is a word of God.

If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature -
even a caterpillar -
I would never have to prepare a sermon. So full of God
is every creature."


"Now I shall tell you something I have never
spoken of before.
God enjoys him/herself.
In the same enjoyment in which God enjoys him/herself,
S/he enjoys all creatures.

God
finds joy and rapture
in us.

All that is good in creatures -
all their honeysweetness -
comes from God.

All things are pure and noble in God."


"God's being is my being

and God's primordial being
is my primordial being.

Wherever I am,
there is God.

The eye with which I see God
is the same eye with which God sees me."


"God created all things in such a way
that they are not outside himself,
as ignorant people falsely imagine.
Rather,
All creatures flow outward, but nonetheless remain
within God.
God created all things this way:
not that they might stand outside of
God, nor alongside God,
nor beyond God,
but that they might
come into God
and receive God
and dwell in God.
For this reason everything that is
is bathed in God,
is enveloped by God,
who is round-about us all, enveloping us."


"If you were to let a horse
run about in a green meadow,
the horse would want to pour forth its whole strength
in leaping about the meadow.

So too
it is a joy to God
to have poured out
the divine nature and being
completely into us

who are divine images."


"The seed of God is in us.
Now
the seed of a pear tree
grows into a pear tree;
and a hazel seed
grows into a hazel tree;

a seed of God
grows into
God."

Taken from Matthew Fox's Meditations with Meister Eckhart