Eckhart criticizes the “merchant mentality,” and he applies his criticism to religious practices, “fasts, vigils, prayers and similar good deeds of all kinds” — if “people do these things so that our Lord may give them something,” they are merely merchants. For “truth doesn’t long for any kind of commercial deal. God does not seek his own interest.” --- Meister Eckhart, A Mystic Warrior For Our Time by Matthew Fox
While all the things he mentions are fine in themselves, the motivation behind is not necessarily so. There is a difference between doing something as a manipulation and doing it because that's who we are in our inner self. The appearance may be the same, but in essence it is not the same.
It occurs to me that we can't con God. For our whole being is known to the God in Whom we live and move and have our being.
How I see it is that our job is to heal our cracked egos, delve deeply, and become thoroughly in tune with the Infinite. No artifice. Who we are becomes light and love, pure and awake, loving because we are in fact love, light because who we are in fact is light. The inner kingdom shows up in the outer, for that is all there is, falsity dissolved into nothingness.
The Master told us this. The kingdom of God is within you... You are the light, don't hide it...love...forgive endlessly...
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