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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
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God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
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The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
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God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.
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People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
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It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
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God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
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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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The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees Hazel seeds into hazel trees And God seeds into God.
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Let God operate in thee Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.
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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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God is at home. We are in the far country.
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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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