Meister Eckhart

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Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260 – c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart or Eckehart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, was a German Catholic theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire.

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Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward him.

—Meister Eckhart

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

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To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process, for he hides behind it.

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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. And not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections; not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

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