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Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Activity category:
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Ambition category:
As the peculiar faculty of the eye is to see form and colour, and of the ear to hear sweet tones and voices, so is aspiration peculiar to the soul. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Attitude category:
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Beginning category:
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Contemplation category:
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Courage category:
Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Creativity category:
Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Earth category:
Earth cannot escape heaven, flee it by going up, or flee it by going down; heaven still invades the earth, energizes it, makes it sacred. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Editing category:
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Experience category:
When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Expression category:
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. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Form category:
Form is a revelation of essence. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Friendship category:
If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Insecurity category:
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Intellect category:
True intelligence operates silently. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Knowledge category:
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! (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Life category:
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 Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Light category:
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Magic category:
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Masters category:
The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Morality category:
All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love... (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Nature category:
If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. And likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Peace category:
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Possibilities category:
To the quiet mind all things are possible. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Prayer category:
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You", that would suffice. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Questions category:
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 so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Religion category:
We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Silence category:
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Solitude category:
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 well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Thought category:
Thoughts are our inner senses. When the inner senses are dull and blurred, you can see nothing in or of yourself; you become a respectable prisoner of received images. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Time category:
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 Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Truth category:
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Unknowns category:
We must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Wisdom category:
Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Work category:
Do not think so much about what one should do, but rather about what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
Meister Johann Eckhart - From the Worry category:
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... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works. (Meister Johann Eckhart)
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