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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

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
Takes
Men
Love
Pours
Contemplation

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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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There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.
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Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.
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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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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
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Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
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The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
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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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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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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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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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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
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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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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.
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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.
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The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
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