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God is not good, or else he could do better.
Meister Eckhart
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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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In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.
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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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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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Words derive their power from the original word.
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The more we have the less we own.
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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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And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
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To the quiet mind all things are possible.
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Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
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Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
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Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
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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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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
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