Meister Eckhart Quotes
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"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 deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works."
Meister Eckhart
"Words derive their power from the original word."
Meister Eckhart
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German Philosopher
"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
Meister Eckhart
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German Philosopher
"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order."
Meister Eckhart
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German Philosopher
"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God."
Meister Eckhart
Topics:
German Philosopher
"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
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German Philosopher
"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."
Meister Eckhart
Topics:
German Philosopher
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."
Meister Eckhart
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German Philosopher
"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."
Meister Eckhart
Topics:
German Philosopher
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."
Meister Eckhart
Topics:
German Philosopher
"Every creature is a word of God."
Meister Eckhart
Topics:
German Philosopher
"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
Topics:
German Philosopher
"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
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German Philosopher
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