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Things Quotes by Meister Eckhart
- 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…
- The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the…
- This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as…
- In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for…
- Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors,…
- A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware…
- Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every…
- To the quiet mind all things are possible.
- Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something…
- 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…
- .... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.
- One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get…
- 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,…
- To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
- Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do…
- 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…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle