The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.