"When
thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and
creature; thou art that which God then was; thou art that whereof he
made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with
that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before ever thine own
willing or thine own seeing began."
"When thou standest
still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing,
and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth
through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee,
that thou dost not see nor hear God."
Jacob Boehme
"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. The love with which I love God is the same love with which God loves me."
Meister Eckhart
"Uncontrolled, the hunger
and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from
what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he
must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet
with all his heart and mind and strength."
Aldous Huxley
"No thought, no action, no
movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature
and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one
with heaven and earth."
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
Lao Tzu
Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference, as ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. If ye had this striving ye would not need to know anything about the pleroma and its qualities, and yet would ye come to your right goal by virtue of your own being. Since, however, thought estrangeth from being, that knowledge must I teach you wherewith ye may be able to hold your thought in leash.
Whereupon the dead were silent and ascended like the smoke above the herdsman's fire, who through the night kept watch over his flock.
Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams and Reflections)