The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
Meister EckhartTreat 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 EckhartNature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.
Meister Eckhart