God is at home. We are in the far country.
Meister EckhartRead
Philosopher · German · 1260 – 1328
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God is at home. We are in the far country.
If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.
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.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
Nobody at any time is cut off from God.
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