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Quote by Meister Eckhart

“God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.”

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German mystic philosopher, born in 1260 and died in 1328. His thoughts have had a profound impact on the world, and he is considered one of the most important representatives of medieval philosophy. more

“When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.”

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.”

Years Truth Earth Pain Dies Eternal Eternity Errors Wounded Crushed Worshippers

Author:William C. Bryant

“To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.”

Moments Force Imagination Eternal Eternity

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.”

Knows Heart Desire Animal Dying My Heart Sick Eternity Artifice

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.”

Romance Lying Pleasure Mines Eternal Eternity Flutes

Book:Essays and Criticisms

Source: Essays and Criticisms

“I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.”

Life Asks Teach Eternal Conscious Eternity Dust Immortality Eternal Life Risen

Book:A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846

Source: A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846

“Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity."”

Important Wish Nice Air Please Red Letters Eternity Command Tone Smoking Customs Lamps Cautious

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”

Humans Existence Magic Eternal Eternity Tricks Fleeting Human Existence Magic Tricks

Book:Where I Live: Selected Essays

Source: Where I Live: Selected Essays

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