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God is at home. We are in the far country.

Meister Eckhart

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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Theologian
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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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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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When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
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Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
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All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.
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For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
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As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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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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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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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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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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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
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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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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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Relation is the essence of everything that exists.
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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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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
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