
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

God is not good, or else he could do better.

If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough.

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 beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

You should give your all to God, and then worry no more about what he may do with what is his.

Words derive their power from the original word.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
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What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

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

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
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Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

That's all an angel is ... an idea of God.

As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.

The more deeply we are our true selves,
the less self is in us.

To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

God is at home. We are in the far country.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

There is no stopping place in this life
nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Action and becoming are one.

There's a place in the soul where you've never been wounded.

God is greater than God.

Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself ... and let God be God in you

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him ... It has nothing in common with anything created.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me ... If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.