You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An 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 Eckhart
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
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... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.
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Words derive their power from the original word.
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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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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.
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