A person should be so poor that he is not, has not, and know... - Meister Eckhart

"A person should be so poor that he is not, has not, and knows not, and has not the knowledge of anything."

Meister Eckhart

Theologian, Mystic German 1260–1328

More from Meister Eckhart

"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."

"God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction."

"Whoever finds himself loses himself."

"Man's last and highest leave-taking is leaving God for God."