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The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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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.
Meister Eckhart
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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.
Meister Eckhart
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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
Meister Eckhart
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
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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.
Meister Eckhart
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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart
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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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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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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart
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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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