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Every creature is a word of God.

Meister Eckhart

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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Creature
God
Creatures
Word
Soul
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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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No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
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This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
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To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.
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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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The more we have the less we own.
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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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The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
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To the quiet mind all things are possible.
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Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.
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For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
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I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
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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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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
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The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
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