The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.