This is a puzzling thought. As one who has been accused of over-thinking matters, there is a clear inference, actually bold declaration I can delay action by considering things excessively which leads to complication rather than simplification. Here there would seem to be emphasis on the consideration and contemplation phase beyond what we are commonly taught.
As I consider the statement, the quality and type of work is far more important than the amount of work. If our inward work is directed toward minimization of ourselves, our egos, our desires and wants, we create more room for God to work in our lives. We if focus on God and discerning and carrying out God’s will rather than our own, our results will reflect that effort. Great works are those works which reflect the carrying out of God’s will.
This is part of the consistent story Eckhart tells us over and over again, the lesson we first heard in the New Testament from John the Baptist. He said he (John) must decrease so that Jesus could increase. We also must decrease so that Jesus can increase in us and the great the increase in us will make the works we do greater if they give glory to God.
As said by Terentius Afer in the 1483 book, Vulgaria Terentii, and was worded in the language of the day as: “It is easyer to saye than to do.”
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