Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall ... everything. (Meister Eckhart)

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall ... everything.

Meister Eckhart

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