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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
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There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
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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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If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.
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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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Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
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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 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 as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
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Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.
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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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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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No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
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God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
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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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Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
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It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
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