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In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.

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
Creatures
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Transcend
Breaking
Creature
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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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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
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I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
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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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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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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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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
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Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.
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