We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.