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German mystic philosopher, born in 1260 and died in 1328. His thoughts have had a profound impact on the world, and he is considered one of the most important representatives of medieval philosophy.

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Famous Meister Eckhart Quotes

“God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.”

Heart Doe Preparation Sensitivity

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“When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order”

Inspirational Order Attitude Positive Attitude

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“God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.”

Truth Ready Eternity Bounds Thee

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“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

Light Grief Darkness

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“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.”

Hard God Given Grows Growing Up Tree Hard Work Intelligent Fruit Seeds Thrive Farmers Nuts Pears God Nature

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“Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Said God Might Jesus

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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.”

Ifs Knows Reality Break Essence Appearance Shells Kernel

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“If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.”

Ifs Men Persons Long Love You Self Love Succeed Including Love Yourself Righteous Loving You Loving Yourself Art Of Loving

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“All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you”

Asks Letting Go

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“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

Soul Hard Body Strong Love Is Hell All Things

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“Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.”

Long Spirit Contrary Gods Will God Love Free Spirit

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“Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.”

Ifs Giving Worry Grace Letting Go

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“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.”

Way Giving Humans Persons Two Jobs Activity Giving Up Various Two Things Hold Fast

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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.”

Light Time Greater Affection Obstacles Smell Reaching Time Management Only Time Temporality Temporal Things

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“Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.”

Thinking Kind May Doe Depends Holy Occupation

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“Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!”

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“God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul”

Soul Divine All Things Rational

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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.”

Ifs Littles Inward

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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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“This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.”

People Thinking Want Humans Has Beens Spirit Written Judging Holy Empty Permanent Holy Spirit Complaints Vulgar Spirit Of God

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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.”

Moving Causes All Things Increase Diminish

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“Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.”

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“Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.”

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“Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.”

Ifs Soul Body House Strength Honor All Things Treats Goods Halls Ownership

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“That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.”

Men Love Should Contemplation Acquire

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“When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.”

Love Attachment Experience Love

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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.”

Ifs Feels Long Soul Order Longing God's Love Longing For God

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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.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving May Lying Church Prayer Fields Willing Quiet All Things Dues Knowing God Deficiency Quiet Place

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“Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.”

Book Animal Creatures All Things Word Of God Animal Rights

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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.”

Highest Ultimate Notion Leaving

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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.”

Looks Happens Found Speak Bears Stress Pleasant Strongest

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“The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.”

Firsts God Love First Love Same Love

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“There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.”

Language Heaven Silence Teach Huge Recovery

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“I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.”

World Needs Heart My Heart Silent

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“Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.”

Kind May Doe Work Sleep Divine Holy Calling Eating Tasks Sacred Divinity Bless Sanctify

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“There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.”

Spiritual Universe Silence

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“...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.”

Spiritual Sun Clear Air Ready Pure Refrain Overflow

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“Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.”

Looks God Left Chance Findings Finding God

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“Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.”

Giving Awareness Produce Birth Reinvention

Book:Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation

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“Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.”

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“For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.”

Way Persons Letting Go

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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.”

Grows Tree Seeds Divinity Pears

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“To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.”

Way Found Cost Activity Ego True Peace

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“What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.”

Done Might Lord Our Lord

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“To the quiet mind all things are possible.”

Mind Quiet All Things

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“The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.”

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“To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.”

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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.”

Persons Important Hours Right Now Sitting Significant

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“What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.”

Giving Long Doe Whole Moments Lying Universe Birth Bed Creating Eternity Present Moment Giving Birth Maternity

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“The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.”

Ifs Want Break Shells Cracked Kernel

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About the Author

Born: 1260
Died: 1328
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 255

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