To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.