Quote by Meister Eckhart
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God. – Meister Eckhart

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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. – Meister Eckhart

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God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you. – Meister Eckhart

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