People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

You need seek God neither below or above. He is no farther away than the door of the heart.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

..... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.