Quote by Meister Eckhart
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. -

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. – Meister Eckhart

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. – 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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There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. – John Henry Newman

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Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. – Anon.

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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. – Cyril Connolly

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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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“I have no more than twenty acres of ground,” he replied, “the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils – boredom, vice, and want.” – Voltaire

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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesnt. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. – Jack Prelutsky

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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. – William Ralph Inge

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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? – Jules Feiffer

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