Meister Eckhart Quotes - Page 10

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• The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Wrath, Order

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, United, Remains

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• No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Reason, Lost

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• Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.

  Meister Eckhart

  Source, Pure

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.

  Meister Eckhart

  Fetch

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

  Meister Eckhart

  Justice, Persons, Transformed

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• Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

  Meister Eckhart

  Knowing, Understanding, May

  Meister Eckhart (1987). “Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises”, Element Books Limited

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• Words derive their power from the original word.

  Meister Eckhart

  Originals

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• God is the word that speaks itself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Speak

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• Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Order, Evil

  "Meister Eckhart's Sermons". Book by Meister Eckhart, 1909.

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• If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, Creation, Filled

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

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  People, Worry, Deeds

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• All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.

  Meister Eckhart

  Father, Son, Teach

  "Meister Eckhart's Sermons". Book by Meister Eckhart, 1909.

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• Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

  Meister Eckhart

  Essence, Community, Relation

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• I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

  Meister Eckhart

  Mind, May, Firsts

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• This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

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  Promise, Rewards, Commandments

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• Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.

  Meister Eckhart

  Christian, Stress, Ideas

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• He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

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  Numbers, Three, Distinction

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• The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.

  Meister Eckhart

  Real, Believe, Men

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• Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spring, Men, Selfishness

  "Meister Eckhart's Sermons". Book by Meister Eckhart, 1909.

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• To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

  Meister Eckhart

  Wonder, Walks

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