Best Quotes by Meister Eckhart (Top 10)
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Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
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And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
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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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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
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Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
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Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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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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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.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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More Meister Eckhart Quotes
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
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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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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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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
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To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
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