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I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

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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Silent
Hear
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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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As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.
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People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
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He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
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The more we have the less we own.
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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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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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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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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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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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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.
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Action and becoming are one.
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This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.
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When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.
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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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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
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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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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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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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