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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
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A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.
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What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
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People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
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The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.
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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
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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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The more we have the less we own.
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When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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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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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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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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Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
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The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees Hazel seeds into hazel trees And God seeds into God.
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God is nearer to me than I am to myself He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
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