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Rather Quotes by Meister Eckhart
- People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
- People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their…
- 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 kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However "sacred" a calling may be, as it…
- A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged…
- 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…
- One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but…
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