To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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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
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 only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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Thou shalt know God without image and without means.
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The more God is in all things, the more He is outside them. The more He is within, the more without.
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