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The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
Meister Eckhart
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Meister Eckhart
Age: 68 †
Born: 1260
Born: January 1
Died: 1328
Died: January 1
Dominican Friar
Philosopher
Theologian
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When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
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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 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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To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.
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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
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When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
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To the quiet mind all things are possible.
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The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
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Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
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People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
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The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
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And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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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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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
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There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
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