If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
The more we have the less we own.
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.
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Meister Eckhart
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
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.
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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.
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
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.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
Words derive their power from the original word.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.
My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.
One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.
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.
We are all meant to be mothers of God…for God is always needing to be born.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this.
Others say they would be better off in church.
If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are.
Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere – in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church.
If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you.
God is not distracted by a multitude of things.
Nor can we be.
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.
If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.
Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.
Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
The more we have the less we own.
As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
God is greater than God.
For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him… It has nothing in common with anything created.
In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.
Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctified our works.
But of God you can never have a sufficiency. The more you have of God, the more you desire. If you could ever have enough of God, so that you were content with him, then God would not be God.
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
Isness is God.
There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.
Now some people are of the opinion that they are altogether holy and perfect, and go around the place with big deeds and big words, and yet they strive for and desire so many things, they wish to possess so much and are so concerned both with themselves and with this thing and that. They assert that they are seeking great piety and devotion, and yet they cannot accept a single word of reproval without answering back. Be certain of this: they are far from God and are not in union with him.
But where is this true possession of God, whereby we really possess him, to be found? This real possession of God is to be found in the heart, in an inner motion of the spirit towards him and striving for him, and not just in thinking about him always and in the same way. For that would be beyond the capacity of our nature and would be very difficult to achieve and would not even be the best thing to do. We should not content ourselves with the God of thoughts for, when the thoughts come to an end, so too shall God. Rather, we should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures. That kind of God will not leave us, unless we ourselves choose to turn away from him.
God, who is faithful, allows his friends to fall frequently into weakness only in order to remove from them any prop on which they might lean. For a loving person it would be a great joy to be able to achieve many great feats, whether keeping vigils, fasting, performing other ascetical practices or doing major, difficult and unusual works. For them this is a great joy, support and source of hope so that their works become a product and a support upon which they can lean. But it is precisely this which our Lord wishes to take from them so that he alone will be their help and support . . . in no way do our works serve to make God give us anything or do anything for us. Our Lord wishes his friends to be freed from such an attitude, and thus he removes their support from them so that they must henceforth find their support only in him.
Now pay attention to this. God is nameless for no one can either speak of him or know him. Therefore a pagan master says that what we can know or say of the First Cause reflects ourselves more than it does the First Cause, for this transcends all speech and all understanding . . . He is being beyond being: he is a nothingness beyond being. Therefore St. Augustine says: ‘The finest thing that we can say of God is to be silent concerning him from the wisdom of inner riches.’ Be silent therefore, and do not chatter about God, for by chattering about him, you tell lies and commit a sin. If you wish to be perfect and without sin, then do not prattle about God. Also you should not wish to understand anything about God, for God is beyond all understanding. A master says: If I had a God that I could understand, I would not regard him as God. If you understand anything about him, then he is not in it, and by understanding something of him, you fall into ignorance, and by falling into ignorance, you become like an animal since the animal part in creatures is that which is unknowing. If you do not wish to become like an animal therefore, do not pretend that you understand anything of the ineffable God.