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James’s Quotes

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

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“By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.”
― Philip Shepherd, New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century

tags: inspirational, spirituality

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“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: catholic, catholic-philosophy, catholicism, medieval, philosophy

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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

tags: action, inspirational, responsibility, thought

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“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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