According to Meister Eckhart: he who has renounced all things finds them again in God, like the man who turns his back on a landscape and finds it incorporeally reflected in the smooth and illusory surface of the lake... The mystic, a sponge of God, is slightly overwhelmed by things until God, a liquid, seeps in and glosses them... But it would be mistaken to thank the mystic or the lover for this 'generosity'. They applaud people simply because they view them without involvement.