No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.
Meister Eckhart
God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.
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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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God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as he is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul
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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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All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you'? One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary
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God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you.
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Gods gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver.
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should b
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You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed in your mind.
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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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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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