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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
—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
“What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.”
—Meister Eckhart
“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
—Meister Eckhart
“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”
—Meister Eckhart
“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”
—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
“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
“Every creature is a word of God.”
—Meister Eckhart
“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.”
—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
“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
“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