Meister Eckhart

His disciples discussed in his presence some noble art.

And dying though he was, he lifted up his head to listen, saying, Oh, let me learn this art now, that I may rejoice in it forever.

For we undergo more than we act, and receive incomparably more than we give.

Therefore some teachers say that it is in this respect the soul is commensurate with God.

For just as God is boundless in giving, so too the soul is boundless in receiving or conceiving.

And just as God is omnipotent to act, so too the soul is no less profound to suffer.

And so in this way, you must cast aside all your deeds and silence your faculties.

that we may outstrip and cast behind us all things unpleasing to the newborn king.

May he help us who became a human child in order that we might become the children of God.

Amen.