I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.