To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process, for he hides behind it.

Meister Eckhart

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Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260 – c. 1328), commonly known as Meister Eckhart (pronounced [ˈmaɪstɐ ʔˈɛkaʁt]), Master Eckhart or Eckehart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic. He was born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now Thuringia in central Germany) in...

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