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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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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
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When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
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God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
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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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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
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If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
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The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
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I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
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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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This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.
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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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