Meister Eckhart - Empty Being

In that breaking-through, 

when I come to be free of my own will 

and of God's will and of all His works and of God Himself, 

then I am above all created things, 

and I am neither God nor creature, 

but I am what I was and what I shall remain, 

now and eternally.

... When I stood in my first cause, 

I 'then had no 'God,' and then I was my own cause. 

I wanted nothing, I longed for nothing, 

for I was empty Being and the only truth in which I rejoiced 

was in the knowledge of my Self. 

Then it was my Self I wanted and nothing else. 

What I wanted I was, and what I was I wanted 

and so I stood empty of God and every thing.