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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.
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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Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
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I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
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Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
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Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
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The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
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Your own efforts did not bring it to pass, only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.
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Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.
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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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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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The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
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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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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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God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.
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