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„Und plötzlich weißt du: Es ist Zeit, etwas Neues zu beginnen und dem Zauber des Anfangs zu vertrauen.“

„Alle Dinge müssen, der Mensch allein ist das Wesen, welches will.“

„Wie wagt ein Ritter im Kampfe Gut, Leib und Seele um vergängliche kurze Ehre, uns aber dünkt es so viel, wenn wir um Gott und die ewige Seligkeit ein kleines Leid ertragen.“

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„Gott kann uns ebensowenig entbehren wie wir ihn.“

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„Alle 30 Jahre kippt die Sprache vollständig um. Die Kommunikation zwischen den Generationen wird dann unmöglich.“

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„Sei bereit jeden Morgen ein Anfänger zu sein.“

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„Die Leute sollten nicht immer soviel darüber nachdenken, was sie tun sollen. Wären sie nur gut, so möchten ihre Werke selber leuchten.“

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Zitate über Gott von Meister Eckhart

„Was Gott liebt, das ist etwas; was Gott nicht liebt, das ist nichts, sagt das Buch der Weisheit." - "Daz got minnet, daz ist iht; waz got niht enminnet, daz enist niht, alsô sprichet daz buoch der wîsheit.“

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Buch der göttlichen Tröstung. Mittelhochdeutsch und Neuhochdeutsch. Übersetzt von Kurt Flasch. C.H. Beck München 2007, Seite 84 http://books.google.de/books?id=u5qDSsWp1U4C&pg=PA84 & 85 ; s. auch Deutsche Predigten und Traktate, übersetzt aus dem Mittelhochdeutschen von Josef Quint, München: Hanser Verlag, 7. Auflage 1995, S. 136. , ISBN 3446106626, http://www.eckhart.de/tbuch.htm#n76 <br class="br">gemeint ist Buch der Weisheit 11, 25: "Wie könnte etwas bleiben, wenn du nicht wolltest? Oder wie könnte erhalten werden, was du nicht gerufen hättest?" Luther-Bibel 1984.

„Manche einfältige Leute meinen, sie sollten Gott vorstellen, als stünde er dort und sie hier. So ist es nicht. Gott und ich wir sind eins. Mit dem Erkennen nehme ich Gott in mich auf, mit der Liebe gehe ich in Gott auf.“

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Original: mdh: "Sumlîche einveltige liute wænent, sie süln got sehen, als er dâ stande und sie hie. Des enist niht. Got und ich wir sîn ein. Mit bekennenne nime ich got in mich, mit minnenne gân ich in got." - Predigt: Iusti vivent in aeternum.
Quelle: Predigt: Iusti vivent in aeternum. In: Meister Eckehart: Deutsche Predigten und Traktate, herausgegeben und übersetzt von Josef Quint, S. 99-115

„Der Mensch soll sich nicht genügen lassen an einem gedachten Gott; denn wenn der Gedanke vergeht, so vergeht auch der Gott.“

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„Unerschütterliches Desinteresse macht den Menschen Gott ähnlich.“

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Meister Eckhart: Zitate auf Englisch

“I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.”

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“Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.”

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“When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”

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“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”

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“We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.”

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As quoted in Christianity (1995) by Joe Jenkins, p. 27

“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”

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“One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.”

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“My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.”

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Quelle: Selected Writings

“Nobody at any time is cut off from God.”

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“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

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As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell, p. 115
Variante: God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.

“There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.”

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“Run into peace.”

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“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.”

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“God is at home. We are in the far country.”

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“Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.”

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“Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.”

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“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”

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“Every creature is a word of God.”

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“The more we have the less we own.”

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“All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.”

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Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

“Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.”

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Sermon I : The Attractive Power of God
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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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Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
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“God can dispense with us just as little as we can dispense with him.”

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Gott kann uns ebensowenig entbehren wie wir ihn.
Sermon 49

“Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.”

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Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
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“Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter.”

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Quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 232

“As the peculiar faculty of the eye is to see form and colour, and of the ear to hear sweet tones and voices, so is aspiration peculiar to the soul. To relax from ceaseless aspiration is sin. This energy of aspiration directed to and grasping God, as far as is possible for the creature, is called Hope, which is also a divine virtue. Through this faculty the soul acquires such great confidence that she deems nothing in the Divine Nature beyond her reach.”

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Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
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“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.”

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Sermon V : The Self-Communication of God
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“A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.”

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Sermon IV : True Hearing
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“A person should never be satisfied with a thought God, for when the thought perishes, the God also perishes.”

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Der Mensch soll sich nicht genügen lassen an einem gedachten Gott; denn wenn der Gedanke vergeht, so vergeht auch der Gott.
Deutsche Predigten und Traktate (1963), p. 60

“We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.”

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Quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 232