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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.


Meister Eckhart

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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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RHODA BELLEZA I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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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...
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MEISTER ECKHART Feast of Michael & All Angels We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised and re...
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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... ...
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MEISTER ECKHART To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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MEISTER ECKHART Words derive their power from the original word.
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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.
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ECKHART TOLLE Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, a...
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AARON ECKHART Thank You for Smoking.
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AARON ECKHART I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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AARON ECKHART The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the stree...
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AARON ECKHART Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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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.
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AARON ECKHART I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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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
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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...
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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...
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