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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.

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
Wiser
Wise
True
Good

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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.
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If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
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I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.
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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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