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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.
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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The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
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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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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
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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.
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Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
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For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
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People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
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Every creature is a word of God.
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God is not good, or else he could do better.
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All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.
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The outward man is the swinging door the inner man is the still hinge.
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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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When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
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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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One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without 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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God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.
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