"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God." ― Meister Eckhart Topic(s): God More From Meister Eckhart "The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me." "Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us." "One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God." More In God "When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."― Thornton Wilder "If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works."― Noam Chomsky "Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."― Lucius Annaeus Seneca