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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

~Meister Eckhart

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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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

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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.

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

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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.

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

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

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What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

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

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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