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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!

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
Mind
Heretic
Second
May
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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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For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my 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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If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.
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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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Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
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Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
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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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To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.
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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
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As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.
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I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
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...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
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