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• If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.

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  I Love Him, Benefits, Way

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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.

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  Father, Son, Teach

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

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• Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.

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  Thinking, Way, Ifs

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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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  Soul, Creation, Filled

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

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  Essence, Community, Relation

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• Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

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  Simple, Light, Spy

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

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• God is the word that speaks itself.

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  Speak

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• My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

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  Children, Joy, Soul

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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.

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  Men, Reason, Lost

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• I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

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  Loss, Sorrow

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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.

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  Book, Life Is, Thousand

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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

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  Source, Pure

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

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• I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

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  Good Life, Circles, Wish

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• God is not good, or else he could do better.

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• Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .

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  Past, Men, Sight

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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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  Soul, Void, May

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

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  Break Through, Numbers, Spirit

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

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• That's all an angel is....an idea of God.

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  Angel, Ideas, My Angel

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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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.

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  Knowing, Understanding, May

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

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

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  Fetch

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• We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

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  Religion

  "Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists". Book by James Geary, p. 232, 2007.

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• The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most like God. And it may well be true, for the soul at its highest is formed like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. For this reason the angel was sent to the soul, so that the soul might be re-formed by it, to be the divine idea by which it was first conceived.

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  Father, Angel, Son

  "The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

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• Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.

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  Long, Free Spirit, God Love

  "Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages". Book by William Ralph Inge, 1904.

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• If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

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  Eye, Crowds, Fixed

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• To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.

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  Jobs, Giving Up, Two

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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