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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.
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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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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A life of rest and peace in God is good a life of pain lived in patience is still better but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
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Relation is the essence of everything that exists.
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Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
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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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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
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This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.
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God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
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Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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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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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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