The more wise and powerful a master, the more directly is his work created, and the simpler it is.

The saying links mastery with immediacy and simplicity: true power does not need elaborate mediation, ornament, or excessive steps. In Eckhart’s spiritual idiom, “mastery” often implies a higher, more unified mode of knowing and acting—one that proceeds from an inner ground rather than from discursive calculation. The “simpler” the work, the more it bears the mark of a single, concentrated source, as opposed to a scattered will compensating with complexity. Read theologically, it can also suggest that divine action is most direct and least encumbered, and that human excellence approaches this by stripping away superfluity and acting from a clarified center.