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Meister Eckhart

German Philosopher

Born: 1260

Died: 1328

God Man Own Who Will You

Related authors: Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Nietzsche Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Immanuel Kant Karl Marx Martin Heidegger Oswald Spengler Theodor W. Adorno

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. Meister Eckhart

Mistake Cost Price Greater Making Than Inaction Far

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

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, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart

Inspirational Soul Heart Yourself Human Being Own Thirty Hides Ourselves Inside Bear Know Know Yourself Learn Go Cover Covering Human Ox Being Depths Your Hard Skins Forty Ground Many Thick Why Things

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. Meister Eckhart

God Home Walk Gone Out Who

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. Meister Eckhart

God Man Heart Wants Peaceful

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. Meister Eckhart

God Me Eye See Sees Same Which

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

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. Meister Eckhart

Attitude You Own Out Thwarted Order Your

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

Darkness Light Sympathy Finds Sorrow Truly Then Us Nearest

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. Meister Eckhart

God Empty Full Things

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door. Meister Eckhart

Every creature is a word of God. Meister Eckhart

God Word Every Creature

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. Meister Eckhart

Needs Pure Detachment Would One Thing Would-Be He Who Serene Thing

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. Meister Eckhart

Man Outward Hinge Still Door Swinging Inner

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. Meister Eckhart

Work Great Will Puny Never Outward Inward

The more we have the less we own. Meister Eckhart

Own More Less

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

Life God Better Books Out Thousand Only No-One Mastered Without Contents Than Person Get Anything Persons Who

Words derive their power from the original word. Meister Eckhart

Words Word Power Derive Original

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