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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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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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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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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The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
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For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
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No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.
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When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
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Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
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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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Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
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God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.
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The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
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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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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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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 whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
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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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God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
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The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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