' I am that I was '...

"I am that I was and that I shall remain now and forever.

Then I receive an impulse which carries me above all angels.

In this impulse I conceive such passing riches that I am not content with God as being God, as being all his godly works, for in this breaking-through I find that God and I are both the same.

Then I am what I was, I neither wax nor wane, for I am the motionless cause that is moving all things."



Meister Eckhart
Franz Pfeiffer, editor
The Works of Meister Eckhart
Translated by C. de B. Evans,
London: John M. Watkins, 1924, vol 1, p. 221