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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.

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.

Meister Eckhart
God, Disappointment, Eye

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 made and let God be God in you.

Meister Eckhart
God, Expression, Made

To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

Meister Eckhart
God, Emptiness, Empty
"Men Who Have Walked with God". Book by Sheldon Cheney, 1992.

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

Meister Eckhart
Funny, God, Home

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

Meister Eckhart
God, Profit, Seeking

You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace... Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.

Meister Eckhart
God, Christian, Spiritual

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

Meister Eckhart
God, Process, Ritual
Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

Meister Eckhart
God, Looks, Chance

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

Meister Eckhart
God, You Like It, Knows

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

Meister Eckhart
God, Men, Purpose

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

Meister Eckhart
God, Faith, Eye
Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

Every creature is a word of God.

Meister Eckhart
God, Soul, Word Of God

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Meister Eckhart
God, Creation, Stillness
Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

Meister Eckhart
Inspirational, God, Jesus

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Meister Eckhart
God, Peace, Heart
Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Meister Eckhart
God, Growing Up, Hard Work

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Meister Eckhart
God, Men, Doors
Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

Meister Eckhart
God, Soul, Capacity
Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

Meister Eckhart
God, Self, Knowing
Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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