He Who Would Be Serene And Pure Needs But One Thing, Detachment.

“He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.”

—Meister Eckhart

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”

—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

“As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.”

—Isaac Newton

“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”

—Rene Descartes

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

—Vincent Van Gogh