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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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Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
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When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
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What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
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Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
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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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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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The more we have the less we own.
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The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
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Action and becoming are one.
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The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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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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