Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

I believe that we have no real access to who we really are except in God. Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.