The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
More Quotes from Meister Eckhart:
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
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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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.
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The eyes that see God are the same eyes through which God sees me.
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And so, too, I speak of love he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.
Meister Eckhart
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