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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
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As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.
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Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.
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The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
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God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.
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Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
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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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Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
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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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Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
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There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.
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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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Your own efforts did not bring it to pass, only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.
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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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And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
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He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
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If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.
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