Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

I came alive when I started loving you.

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.