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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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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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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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There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
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I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.
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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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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.
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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. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.
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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
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The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.
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When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
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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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To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
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Action and becoming are one.
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The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.
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