Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.