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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
Theologian
University Teacher
Better
Good
Else

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
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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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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
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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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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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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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