"Words derive their power from the original word.“

-Meister Eckhart

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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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"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order."

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"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."

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

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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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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."

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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."

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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."

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