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I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

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
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To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.
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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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For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
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Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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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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