If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour. - Meister Eckhart

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

You should be like those who at all times watch and wait for their Lord’ (Luke 12:36). Truly, such vigilant people are alert and on the watch for their Lord for whom they wait; they look to see if he is not by chance concealed in what befalls them, however strange it may be to them.

Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God. ... To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.