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Variant: If "thank you" is the only prayer you can utter in your lifetime, that would be enough.

— Meister Eckhart Disputed

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All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments.

Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.

Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.

Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.

Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

A Dazzling Darkness: An Anthology of Western Mysticism (1985)

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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