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righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works. However holy our works may be, they do not in any way make us holy in so far as they are works, but it is we, in so far as we are holy and possess fullness of being, who sanctify all our works, whether these be eating, sleeping, waking or anything at all.
Eckhart, Meister. Selected Writings. Ed. Oliver Davies. London: Penguin, 1994. Print.
Note: Eckhart von Hochheim O.P. (c. 1260 – c. 1328, commonly known as Meister Eckhart [?ma??st? ??k?a?t], often Eckehart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire.