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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.

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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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
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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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I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
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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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