11 Quotes by Meister Eckhart about Soul
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When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.
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There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.
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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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The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
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When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
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Every creature is a word of God.
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There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.
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If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.
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Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
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