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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
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In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.
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I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
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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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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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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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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.
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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 seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
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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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The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
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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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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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Words derive their power from the original word.
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