Meister Eckhart Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
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“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.”
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“What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.”
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“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.”
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“God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.”
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“God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.”
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“Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.”
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“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”
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“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
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“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”
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“God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.”
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“The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.”
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“Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.”
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“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.”
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“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
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“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.”
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“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
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“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”
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“Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.”
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“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”
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“We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.”
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“The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.”
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“God cannot know himself without me.”
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“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”
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“He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.”
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“The more we have the less we own.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”
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