Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.