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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister Eckhart
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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
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I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
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I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
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And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
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God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
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When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.
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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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The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
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To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.
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There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.
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Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.
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No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
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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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This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.
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Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
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