Meister Eckhart - Breaking-through

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.

art  Harry Parke