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

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

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

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.