"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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"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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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

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"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

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"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."

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"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."

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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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"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Explore more quotes by Meister Eckhart

"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."

"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."

"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."

"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."

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."

"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."

"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."

"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."

"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."