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I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

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
Inspirational
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God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
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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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This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
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This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.
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The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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The more we have the less we own.
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To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.
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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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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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To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
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There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
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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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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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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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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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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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