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The more we have the less we own.

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
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If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.
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God is nearer to me than I am to myself He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
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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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God cannot know himself without me.
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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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I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
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Relation is the essence of everything that exists.
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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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The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
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God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
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For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
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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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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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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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The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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