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It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

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
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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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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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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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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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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.
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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
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There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.
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The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
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For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
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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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The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
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No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
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God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
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God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.
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In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.
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