In a famous sermon to his disciples in the early 1300s, the spiritual teacher and mystic Meister Eckhart implored of his followers: “It is not that we should abandon, neglect, or deny our inner self, but we should learn to work precisely in it, with it, and from it in such a way that interiority turns into effective action and effective action leads back to interiority and we become used to acting without any compulsion” (emphasis added).
