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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
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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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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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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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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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The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
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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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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
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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 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 very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
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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 more we have the less we own.
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
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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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For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
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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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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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The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
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