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Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

Meister Eckhart
Faith, Giving, Be Prepared

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

Meister Eckhart
Giving, Birth, Awareness
Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

Meister Eckhart
Faith, Lying, Giving

Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

Meister Eckhart
Prayer, People, Giving
Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.

Meister Eckhart
Faith, Gone Away, Giving
Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

Meister Eckhart
Letting Go, Giving, Worry

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Meister Eckhart
Angel, Ideas, Giving
"The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church". Multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999.

The Father and the Son have one Will, and that Will is the Holy Ghost, Who gives Himself to the soul so that the Divine Nature permeates the powers of the soul so that it can only do God-like works.

Meister Eckhart
Father, Son, Giving
Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.38, Cosimo, Inc.

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