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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.
Meister Eckhart
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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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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A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
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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.
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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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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When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
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