The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.