Meister Eckhart, Volume 1
Translated by C. de B. Evans
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1 SERMONS AND COLLATIONS
SERMONS AND COLLATIONS
Someone compltiinotl to Moistor Eckhart that no ono could understand his sermons. Tie said, To iindorstand my sermons a man requires three things. Ho must have conquered strife and bo in contemplation of his highest good and bo satisfied to do God’s bidding and be a beginner with beginners and naught hitnsolf and be so master of hiinsclf as to bo incapable of anger.
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