Jesus might have said, ''I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.''
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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.Meister Eckhart
All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you' One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary,
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The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However 'sacred' a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other.
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God is at home it is we who have gone for a walk.
Meister Eckhart
Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had done the deed and I could, by a total will, do as great a sin as if I had killed the whole world, though I never actually did anything. Why, would the same not be possible to a good will Yes, indeed, and even much more so. Surely, I can do all things with the will. I can bear the sorrow of all men and feed all the poor and do the work of all men and whatever else you may think of. If it be not the will that fails you, but only the power, then truly, before God, you have done it all, and no man can take it from you or even hinder you for a moment for to will to do as soon as I can is the same before God as having done it.
Meister Eckhart
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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