The soul grows by contraction and expansion. - Meister Eckhart

"The soul grows by contraction and expansion."

Meister Eckhart

Theologian, Mystic German 1260–1328

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"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."

"God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction."

"Whoever finds himself loses himself."

"Man's last and highest leave-taking is leaving God for God."