Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

God leads every soul by a separate path.

However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.