“Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.”

— Meister Eckhart

Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

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German theologian 1260–1328

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