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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart
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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
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He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
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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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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
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Every creature is a word of God.
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God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
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The more we have the less we own.
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He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
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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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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 very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
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You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.
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