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As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

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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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
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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 eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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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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A life of rest and peace in God is good a life of pain lived in patience is still better but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
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It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
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People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
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The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
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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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No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
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Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
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The more we have the less we own.
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Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
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People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
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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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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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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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Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.
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God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
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