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God cannot know himself without me.

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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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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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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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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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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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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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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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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For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
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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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He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
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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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Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
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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 who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
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I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
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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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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