{"author":"Meister Eckhart","author_id":"Meister+Eckhart","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["harvest","action","plant "],"id":3282,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"Every creature is a word of God.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["word","creature","every "],"id":14592,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow  and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["god"],"id":17762,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["inner-peace","inspirational","religion"],"id":37891,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["catholic","catholicism","christian","christianity","god","holy-spirit","holy-trinity","joy","laughter","love","pleasure","religion","soul"],"id":51733,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["spirituality"],"id":57023,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["god","walk","gone "],"id":73731,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'Thank you ' that would suffice.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["prayer"],"id":84142,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["eye","me","see "],"id":86600,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"},{"text":"A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.","author":"Meister Eckhart","tags":["meister-eckhart","now","time"],"id":100889,"author_id":"Meister+Eckhart"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}