The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Explore daily the will of God.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.