Meister Eckhart

  "When jointly are the faculties withdrawn from all their business, their objects all, then will this word be spoken. Hence it is said: 'In the midst of silence was the secret word spoken unto me.' The more thou art in trim all faculties to indraw and forget all things and all their forms that ever were received into thyself, the more thou dost forget the creature thus, so much the nearer art thou unto this, so much the readier for it."