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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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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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People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
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And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
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He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
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Action and becoming are one.
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This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
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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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I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
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Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
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God is nearer to me than I am to myself He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
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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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The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
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The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.
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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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Every creature is a word of God.
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There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
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