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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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Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
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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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Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
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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 Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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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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Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
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When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
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And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
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God cannot know himself without me.
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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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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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I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
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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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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.
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The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
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For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
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There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
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