10 Quotes by Meister Eckhart about god
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The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
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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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Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
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Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.
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It is a lie - any talk of God that does not comfort you.
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If you wish to know God, you should not only be like the Son, but you should be the Son himself.
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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
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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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