327 Quotes by Meister Eckhart



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    I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

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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.

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    Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know anything of true peace and have a real kingdom of heaven.

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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.

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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.

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