Meister Eckhart Quotes
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Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
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To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.
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Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.
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I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
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I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
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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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My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
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Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.
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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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The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
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God is the word that speaks itself.
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You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
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God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
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The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
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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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And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
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Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
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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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If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
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A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
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The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
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The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
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Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
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We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.
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God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
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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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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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A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, am I right or am I wrong? One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.
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