Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However โsacredโ a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.
Meister EckhartI maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
Meister EckhartTo be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
Meister Eckhart