The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
MEISTER ECKHART You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
MEISTER ECKHART To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchf...
MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
MEISTER ECKHART One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works...
MEISTER ECKHART The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are ...
MEISTER ECKHART If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of...
MEISTER ECKHART God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you ...
MEISTER ECKHART A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, bu...
MEISTER ECKHART People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their...
MEISTER ECKHART To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What shou...
MEISTER ECKHART All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
MEISTER ECKHART Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.
MEISTER ECKHART To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
MEISTER ECKHART The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up t...
MEISTER ECKHART Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even ...
MEISTER ECKHART God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
MEISTER ECKHART Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all t...
MEISTER ECKHART Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God p...
MEISTER ECKHART The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood ther...
MEISTER ECKHART He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
MEISTER ECKHART If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
MEISTER ECKHART To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and ho...
MEISTER ECKHART The more we have the less we own.
MEISTER ECKHART There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is ...
MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice.
MEISTER ECKHART If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person...
MEISTER ECKHART We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to...
MEISTER ECKHART The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an a...
MEISTER ECKHART It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no mo...
MEISTER ECKHART God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.
MEISTER ECKHART In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
MEISTER ECKHART Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is near...
MEISTER ECKHART What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
MEISTER ECKHART The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
MEISTER ECKHART A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, bu...
MEISTER ECKHART And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.
MEISTER ECKHART We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to...
MEISTER ECKHART Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 There never was a pa...
MEISTER ECKHART Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Fria...
MEISTER ECKHART Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no H...
MEISTER ECKHART There never was a pain that befell a man, no frustration or discouragement, however insignificant, t...
MEISTER ECKHART Feast of Michael & All Angels We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised and re...
MEISTER ECKHART Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 The less y...
MEISTER ECKHART Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Whoso goes seeking God...
MEISTER ECKHART I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so n...
MEISTER ECKHART Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 If you hav...
MEISTER ECKHART The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I a...
MEISTER ECKHART Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century ... for one good never clashes with anothe...
MEISTER ECKHART Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 My God, I love Thee -- not because I hop...
MEISTER ECKHART Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 The man who will and can go to our Lord in all freedom... ...
MEISTER ECKHART Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 Love ... is very noticeabl...
MEISTER ECKHART Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.".
MEISTER ECKHART What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action
MEISTER ECKHART The "now" wherein God made the first man, and the "now" wherein the last man disappears, and the "no...
MEISTER ECKHART To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
MEISTER ECKHART People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only t...
MEISTER ECKHART Words derive their power from the original word.
MEISTER ECKHART Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
MEISTER ECKHART Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and no...
MEISTER ECKHART What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
MEISTER ECKHART There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far alo...
MEISTER ECKHART The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me
MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough.
MEISTER ECKHART One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the conten...
MEISTER ECKHART Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
MEISTER ECKHART Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Some people want to see ...
MEISTER ECKHART A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw...
MEISTER ECKHART Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had...
MEISTER ECKHART The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
MEISTER ECKHART La vie, c'est comme dessiner sans avoir de gomme pour effacer.
MEISTER ECKHART Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is near...
MEISTER ECKHART Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect...
MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice
MEISTER ECKHART Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
MEISTER ECKHART When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
MEISTER ECKHART God’s gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver.
MEISTER ECKHART You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrat...
MEISTER ECKHART A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
MEISTER ECKHART Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
MEISTER ECKHART I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will...
MEISTER ECKHART Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding ...
MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
MEISTER ECKHART Every creature is a word of God
MEISTER ECKHART Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by tu...
MEISTER ECKHART For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
MEISTER ECKHART God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as he is rational, God is nowhere so pr...
MEISTER ECKHART We're just going to try to hold him back because he's like a wild stallion. He is a very competitive...
BARRY MEISTER Growth was a little stronger than the previous year ... what we are seeing is strong and consistent ...
ALAN MEISTER There's still a lot of potential for growth.
ALAN MEISTER We can't keep people off the ice. We never say the ice is safe. You have water eroding the ice from ...
BARRY MEISTER People have been known to put a board out on ice, but we don't recommend that. If you have to do tha...
BARRY MEISTER I don't think Randy's drawn any lines in the sand or given any kind of ultimatum.
BARRY MEISTER After Billy Wagner, I'd say Kyle and B. J. Ryan seem to be the overwhelming choice of a lot of teams...
BARRY MEISTER He has certainly not presented a list of teams he would be willing to play for, nor has the team ask...
BARRY MEISTER The horse racing industry has been suffering over time, and this is a way to help.
ALAN MEISTER Tim ran really well tonight. He beat the No. 5 runner for West Sioux and last week both their fifth ...
GREG MEISTER Ashley's running really well right now. This is the first time this season she's beat every West Sio...
GREG MEISTER Ashley is running really well right now. She gets out fairly decent and progressively moves up throu...
GREG MEISTER We hadn't been under two minutes for our 1-5 guys at all and it was just under 1:40. I think they're...
GREG MEISTER They're running pretty well up front. That's a big key at districts. One or two guys in the top 10 p...
GREG MEISTER Obviously we'd like to keep our streak going. I think we've got a good chance at that. There are fou...
GREG MEISTER Right now the biggest difference between us and West Sioux are our second and third runners, because...
GREG MEISTER It's out on the nature preserve in North Sioux City and it's a nice limestone trail and it's a nice ...
GREG MEISTER We had a good run out of all three of those guys. Eric especially has been running better. He's runn...
GREG MEISTER She really had a great kick today. She was about 15 seconds behind the girl in the lead and ended up...
GREG MEISTER It's good competition. They run big schools and small schools together and then separate the scores ...
GREG MEISTER This is the best possible way we could have gone out. I couldn't imagine anything better than this. ...
ERIC MEISTER He is really a good passing big man. Whenever he gets doubled on his drives, he knows where everybod...
ERIC MEISTER I think I've played all of them pretty well. It gives me a lot more confidence knowing that I can pl...
ERIC MEISTER We're definitely making good progress. We're playing really well.
ERIC MEISTER It was definitely a lot more exciting.
ERIC MEISTER That's one of the things we talked about at halftime. We were in that same situation. We responded a...
ERIC MEISTER It would have been a little ridiculous if I didn't play well. They name the whole thing after me and...
ERIC MEISTER It's really flattering. It is weird, at school the whole day, just hearing people saying my name and...
ERIC MEISTER The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently,...
ECKHART TOLLE To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge...
ECKHART TOLLE Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your ...
ECKHART TOLLE Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
ECKHART TOLLE If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
ECKHART TOLLE Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
ECKHART TOLLE Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor...
ECKHART TOLLE Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, a...
ECKHART TOLLE He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author's intention. It's his movie. He's the man in it.
AARON ECKHART I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subject...
AARON ECKHART Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. ...
AARON ECKHART All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ......
AARON ECKHART For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way....
AARON ECKHART Nick is a tobacco lobbyist who loves his job and doesn't apologize for it, which [as a role] is exci...
AARON ECKHART I think Jason's going to have a huge career,
AARON ECKHART Thank You for Smoking.
AARON ECKHART the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well a...
AARON ECKHART I'd like to do more family dramas.
AARON ECKHART I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
AARON ECKHART I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
AARON ECKHART But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have rem...
AARON ECKHART The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the stree...
AARON ECKHART Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
AARON ECKHART Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
AARON ECKHART You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and...
AARON ECKHART Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them drama...
AARON ECKHART But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
AARON ECKHART I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
AARON ECKHART Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and g...
AARON ECKHART I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
AARON ECKHART There are different reasons to make movies.
AARON ECKHART I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what ...
AARON ECKHART I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, ...
AARON ECKHART I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
AARON ECKHART Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
AARON ECKHART A film has its own life and takes its own time.
AARON ECKHART It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll d...
AARON ECKHART If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
AARON ECKHART Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
AARON ECKHART I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
AARON ECKHART I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
AARON ECKHART What you refer to as your
ECKHART TOLLE The only thing you ever have is now.
ECKHART TOLLE People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true...
ECKHART TOLLE When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the ene...
ECKHART TOLLE If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetua...
ECKHART TOLLE As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transf...
ECKHART TOLLE The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It come...
ECKHART TOLLE Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
ECKHART TOLLE Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How ...
ECKHART TOLLE The past has no power over the present moment.
ECKHART TOLLE Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
ECKHART TOLLE Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
ECKHART TOLLE Nobody
ECKHART TOLLE The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ...
ECKHART TOLLE A beggar had been sitting by the side of the road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked b...
ECKHART TOLLE I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometim...
ECKHART TOLLE All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistan...
ECKHART TOLLE You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the s...
ECKHART TOLLE Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to sto...
ECKHART TOLLE Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let...
ECKHART TOLLE In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...
ECKHART TOLLE Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will e...
ECKHART TOLLE Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...
ECKHART TOLLE It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacin...
AARON ECKHART There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can ac...
ECKHART TOLLE The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive....
ECKHART TOLLE There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life...
ECKHART TOLLE Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable ...
ECKHART TOLLE Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the presen...
ECKHART TOLLE The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, becau...
ECKHART TOLLE Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation...
ECKHART TOLLE Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
ECKHART TOLLE Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, an...
ECKHART TOLLE What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, the...
ECKHART TOLLE Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next mom...
ECKHART TOLLE I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very str...
ECKHART TOLLE I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
ECKHART TOLLE It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
ECKHART TOLLE Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhap...
ECKHART TOLLE To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the...
ECKHART TOLLE Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't...
ECKHART TOLLE Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the h...
ECKHART TOLLE