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Meister Eckhart

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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
Meister Eckhart
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
Meister Eckhart
When you are thwarted it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Meister Eckhart
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart
God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart
Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all to us
Meister Eckhart
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
Meister Eckhart
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
Meister Eckhart
What we plant in the soil of contemplation we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
The more we have the less we own.
Meister Eckhart
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart
You may call God love you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister Eckhart
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing detachment.
Meister Eckhart
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me my eye and Gods eye are one eye one seeing one knowing one love.
Meister Eckhart
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Meister Eckhart
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
Meister Eckhart
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Meister Eckhart
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
Meister Eckhart
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister Eckhart
And suddenly you just know. It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was thank you that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
Meister Eckhart
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
Meister Eckhart
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Meister Eckhart
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart
Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
Meister Eckhart
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
Meister Eckhart
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.
Meister Eckhart
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
Meister Eckhart
Words derive their power from the original word.
Meister Eckhart
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Meister Eckhart
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Meister Eckhart
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.
Meister Eckhart
Every creature is a word of God.
Meister Eckhart
We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart

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