"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."
-Meister Eckhart
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"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.“
-Meister Eckhart
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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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"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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