As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.