Author: Meister Eckhart

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Meister Eckhart

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.

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

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

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

- Meister Eckhart

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

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

- Meister Eckhart

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

- Meister Eckhart

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

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

- Meister Eckhart

Every creature is a word of God.

Every creature is a word of God.

- Meister Eckhart

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