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Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

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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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
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The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
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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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No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
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Let God operate in thee Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.
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