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Letter "M" » Meister Eckhart Quotes
«If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.»
«The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.»
«To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
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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.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
affections, obstacle, taint, Taints, temporal, temporalities, temporality
«The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.»
«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.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
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avails, borne, ceases, celebrating, feast, God the Father, In Me, place of birth, take place, The Eternal, The Father
«God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you.»
«A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.»
«It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should b»
«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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