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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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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
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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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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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God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
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The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
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The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
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God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
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I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
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Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
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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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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.
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In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.
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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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If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.
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Relation is the essence of everything that exists.
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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 is not good, or else he could do better.
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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
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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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