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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.

— Meister Eckhart Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

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All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments.

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As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.

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He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.

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To the quiet mind all things are possible.

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Grace is from God, and works in the depth of the soul whose powers it employs. It is a light which issues forth to do service under the guidance of the Spirit.

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