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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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I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
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As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.
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People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
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Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.
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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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No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.
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God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
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To the quiet mind all things are possible.
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Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
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Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
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The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
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Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.
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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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Your own efforts did not bring it to pass, only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
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Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
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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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