“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
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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.”
— Meister Eckhart
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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
— Meister Eckhart
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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
— Meister Eckhart
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“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”
— Meister Eckhart
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“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”
— Meister Eckhart
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“When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.”
— Meister Eckhart
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“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
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“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”
— Meister Eckhart
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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.”
— Meister Eckhart
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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.”
— Meister Eckhart
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