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God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

Meister Eckhart

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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Greatest
Least
Spirituality

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The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
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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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It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
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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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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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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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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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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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I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
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As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.
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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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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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Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
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