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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

— Meister Eckhart Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation (1941)

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

Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

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

Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

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’s Sermons (1909)

He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.

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To the quiet mind all things are possible.

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God seeks comrades and claims love,
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