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From Quotes by Meister Eckhart
- God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
- It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God…
- Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.
- 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…
- Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us…
- The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then…
- ...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun…
- To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and…
- To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
- 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.…
- Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
- The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the…
- A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being…
- Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.
- Words derive their power from the original word.
- Nobody at any time is cut off from God.
- 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…
- If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live…
- [W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
- You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at…
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