“I work, therefore I work.”

Gelassenheit means “releasement” or “letting go.” The term is an old one in German intellectual history, from the theologizing of Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) to the religious thought of Reform Anabaptists and early modern mystics, to its 20th-century revival in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

“Make a start with yourself, and abandon yourself. Truly, if you do not begin by getting away from yourself, wherever you run to, you will find obstacles and trouble wherever it may be. People who seek peace in external things — be it in places or ways of life or people or activities or solitude or poverty or degradation — however great such a thing may be or whatever it may be, still it is all nothing and gives no peace.”

“If anyone were to ask a truthful man who works out of his own ground: “Why are you performing your works?” and if he were to give a straight answer, he would say nothing else than: “I work, therefore I work.”
source: Gelassenheit (releasement) in Meister Eckhart