A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.