Call It Many; Its body is all void.
Say It arises; It has no body and no form.
Say It becomes extinct; It glows for all eternity.
Call It empty; It has thousands of functions.
Say It exists; It is silent without shape.
Call It high; It is level without form.
Call It low; nothing is equal to it."
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Meister Eckhart:
A 14th century German theologian, philosopher and Christian mystic. A Dominican Friar - in later life, he was accused of heresy and brought up before the Inquisition, and tried as a heretic. His words:
"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language."
"Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness."
"One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be."
"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love."
"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
"One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be."
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