Every creature is a word of God. - Meister Eckhart

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It is written: ‘They have become rich in all virtues’ (1 Cor. 1:5). Truly, this cannot happen unless they first become poor in all things. Whoever desires to be given everything, must first give everything away.

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our Lord said, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit’ (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.

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