[...] Cause in eternity there's no yesterday or tomorrow, but only Now. |
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. |
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice. |
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. |
All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself - and let God be God in you'? One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers, humanity, behind. The same Eckhart affirms that, on the contrary, |
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. |
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. |
Every creature is a word of God |
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 and let God be God in you. |
God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk. |
God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as he is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul |
God’s gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver. |
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. |
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. |