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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled th

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself. – Meister Eckhart

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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. – Meister Eckhart

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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. – Meister Eckhart

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[D]ivine Providence… keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul… – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nominalist and Realist”

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The defects of the soul are like wounds in the body — whatever care one takes to heal, the scar still appears, and they are every moment in danger of reopening. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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The soul lives unstably in the body, and is capable of mysterious transformations. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. – George S. Merriam

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