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Meister Eckhart Genuine Quotes
17 pages (so far) of quotations, selected and translated from the original by ELLOPOS
Page 15
“ To deny yourself and pick up your Cross. The masters say that this means we will suffer in fast and other pains. I say that this means we will be free from suffering, because nothing else follows this action, than joy.”
“ A man who loves God would leave the whole world as easily as an egg. The more he leaves, the easier it becomes for him to leave; like the Apostles, the greater their pains, the easier they suffered them.”
“ However great a pain might be, if it comes through God, then God suffers first. Indeed, in all the truth that God is: the slightest pain that ever came to a man, any pain that a man suffers trully inside God, the slightest disaster or adversity, afflicts God incomparably more than man, and is in reality an adversity to Him much more than to man. But, if God feels pain, through this pain working for your good, and if you suffer what God suffers, through Him coming to you, then necessarily this becomes divine. Disgrace becomes like grace, bitterness like sweetness, and the greatest darkness like the brightest light. It receives all of its taste from God and becomes divine. It reforms itself [erbildet sich] divinely whatever comes to such a person, because he doesn’t think of anything else and doesn’t sense anything else. This man takes God in all bitterness just as in the greatest sweetness.”
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