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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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The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
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For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
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When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
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God is not good, or else he could do better.
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
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Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
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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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