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Meister Eckhart Inspirational Quotes (135)

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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
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If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
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If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
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Words derive their power from the original word.
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The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
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God is nearer to me than I am to myself He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
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The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
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Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
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The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.
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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.
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Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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Your own efforts did not bring it to pass, only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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