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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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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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If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.
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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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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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