Compassion Quote by Meister Eckhart

“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.”

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Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

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[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

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I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.

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“But where is this true possession of God, whereby we really possess him, to be found? This real possession of God is to be…

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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…

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If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

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Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

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