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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.
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
Men
Abroad
Ground
Except
Lost
Left
Become
Reason
Permanently
Ever
Settled
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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.
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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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The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
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For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
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Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
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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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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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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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