Meister Eckhart
"I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God."
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"I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God."
"أنا على يقين، ما دمت أحيا، أنه لا شيء أقرب إليّ من الله. فالله أقرب إليّ من نفسي؛ ووجودي مرهون بقرب الله وحضوره."
Meister Eckhart
"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."
"الله في بيته، ونحن من خرجنا للتنزه."
Meister Eckhart
"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."
"حقًا، في غياهب الظلام يُكتشف الن"
Meister Eckhart
"All God wants of man is a peaceful heart."
"كل ما يبتغيه الله من الإنسان قلبٌ سليم."
Meister Eckhart
"Every creature is a word of God."
"كل كائن كلمة من الله."
Meister Eckhart
"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."
"لا يرجو الله منك إلا أمرًا واحدًا، وهو أن تتجرد من ذاتك بقدر ما يخص كيانك المخلوق، وأن تدع الله يكون إلهًا فيك."
Meister Eckhart
"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."
"العارف والمعروف واحد. يتوهم البسطاء أنهم يرون الله وكأنه قائم هناك وهم هنا. ليس الأمر كذلك. فالله وأنا، واحدٌ في المعرفة."
Meister Eckhart
"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."
"العين التي أرى بها الله هي ذاتها العين التي يراني بها."
Meister Eckhart
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."
"لو كانت صلاتك الوحيدة في حياتك كلها هي "شكرًا لك"، لكفت."
Meister Eckhart
"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
"قد تدعو الله حباً، وقد تدعوه خيراً، ولكن أسمى أسمائه الرحمة."
Meister Eckhart
"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
"ما نزرعه في تربة التأمل، نحصده في غلال العمل."
Meister Eckhart
"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order."
"عندما تُحبَط، فموقفك أنت هو الذي اختلّ نظامه."
Meister Eckhart
"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort."
"بعض الناس يشتهون رؤية الله بأعينهم، كما يرون البقرة. ويحبونه كمحبتهم لبقرتهم، لما تدرّه عليهم من لبن وجبن وربح. وهذا شأن من يحب الله طمعاً في عرض الدنيا أو طلباً لراحة النفس."
Meister Eckhart
"If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice."
"لو كانت "شكرًا لك" هي الدعاء الوحيد الذي تتفوه به في حياتك كلها، لكفى."
Meister Eckhart
"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language."
"قد يتنازع علماء اللاهوت، لكن صوفية العالم يتحدثون لغة واحدة."
Meister Eckhart
"Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness."
"ليس في الخليقة كلها ما يشبه الله كالسكون."
Meister Eckhart
"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."
Meister Eckhart
"The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring."
Meister Eckhart
"If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough."
Meister Eckhart
"I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!"
Meister Eckhart
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