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.
Meister Eckhart
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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.
Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
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 is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me."
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.
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
The more we have the less we own.
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
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.
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.
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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.
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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