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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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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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Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.
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God is nearer to me than I am to myself He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
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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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Action and becoming are one.
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Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
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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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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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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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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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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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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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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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Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
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The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.
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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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