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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.”

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Meister Eckhart

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. more

“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

Book:Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart

Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart

“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

Author:Meister Eckhart

“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

Book:Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart

Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart

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

Symbols

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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

Book:Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart

Source: Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart

“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

Book:Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart

Source: Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart

“God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.”

Rivers Dams

Author:Meister Eckhart

“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

Author:Meister Eckhart

“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.”

Men Made Wife My Wife Birthday Toasts Funny Marriage Waiter No Respect

Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

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