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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.
Meister Eckhart
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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
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If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.
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When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
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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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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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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
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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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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
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When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
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All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.
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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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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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