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When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
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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...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.
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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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To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
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The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.
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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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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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No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
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You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.
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For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
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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 have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
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