Quotes by Meister Eckhart

"Every creature is a word of God."

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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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"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."

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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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"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."

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