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He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
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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Consciousness
Knowing
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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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Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
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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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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
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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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There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
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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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You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.
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The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.
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The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.
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