A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.