The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
Meister EckhartThe second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.
Meister Eckhart