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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
Meister Eckhart
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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Theologian
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To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.
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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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The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
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Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
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The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
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The more we have the less we own.
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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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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
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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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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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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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Your own efforts did not bring it to pass, only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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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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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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This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
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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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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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