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Meister Eckhart Genuine Quotes
17 pages (so far) of quotations, selected and translated from the original by ELLOPOS
Page 13
“ When the soul is separated from the body, this is very painful, but when God is separated from the soul, the pain is uncountable. As the soul gives life to the body, God gives life to the soul. As the soul spreads to all the members of the body, God spreads to all the powers of the soul and fills them, so that they overflow with goodness and love everywhere; this way [through God’s love in the deified human soul] all things understand God.”
“ Protect yourself from yourself, and you will have a good protection.”
“ Start first with yourself and abandon yourself. Trully, if you won’t first leave yourself, wherever you may go you will find obstacles and war, anywhere. They who seek peace in external things - in places or in ways and methods, in persons or works, in monasticism or isolation, in poverty or humility, in anything, however great that might be - , not one of them has the least value and it does not bring peace at all. They who ask this way, ask wrong. The further they go, the less they find what they seek. They walk like the man who has lost his way: the more he walks the more his delusion grows. ... But if someone abandons himself, whatever else he might keep, whether riches or honours, or anything, he has abandoned all things ... See yourself and wherever you find him, see him off ... The more you go out of all things, that much, neither less nor more, God comes in you with all that is His.”
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