Meister Eckhart quotes - page 5

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall ... everything. (Meister Eckhart)
There is no stopping place in this life -- nor is there ever one for any man, no matter how far along his way he's gone. View quote
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And so, too, I speak of love he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other. View quote
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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. View quote
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... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One. View quote
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The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills. If he were ill he would not wish to be well. If he really abides in God's will, all pain is to him a joy, all complication, simple: yea, even the pains of hell would be a joy to him. He is free and gone out from himself, and from all that he receives, he must be free. If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour. The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love. View quote
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Sanctification is the best of all things, for it cleanses the soul, and illuminates the conscience, and kindles the heart, and wakens the spirit, and girds up the loins, and glorifies virtue and separates us from creatures, and unites us with God. The quickest means to bring us to perfection is suffering; none enjoy everlasting blessedness more than those who share with Christ the bitterest pangs. Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered. The surest foundation in which this perfection may rest is humility; whatever here crawls in the deepest abjectness, that the Spirit lifts to the very heights of God, for love brings suffering and suffering brings love. View quote
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