“Meister Eckhart was a Catholic mystic and Dominican Friar who lived in Medieval Germany from 1260 to 1328.
A mystic is someone who relates to God directly and is transformed by the experience.
Meister Eckhart enjoyed a direct relationship with God and it totally changed him. The joy, freedom, and identity he received from God propelled him into a life of sharing the Good News of divine joy with people of his time. As a Dominican Friar, he shared the Good News by preaching. In his preaching, he proclaimed deep mystical truths to everyday people.
Meister Eckhart wrote this spiritual truth
, ‘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 whosoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.’
More wisdom from Meister Eckhart’s quotes are these: ‘Never has a person longed after anything so intensely as God longs to bring a person to the point of knowing Him. God is always ready, but we are very unready. God is near to us, but we 
are very far from Him. God is with us, but we are outside. God is at home in us, but we are abroad … God help us … that we all follow Him so that He can bring us to the point where we truly know Him.’ ‘Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.’ ‘Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.’ Lastly, ‘And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.’ ”
Nothing but God: The Everyday Mysticism of Meister Eckhart, L. J. Milone, pgs. 54 – 55.