One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

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.

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.

The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the head into the foot, and the foot into the head. Thus all things turn and spin and change, this into that, and that into this, the topmost to the undermost, and the undermost to the topmost. For at the root all is one, and salvation inheres in the change and return of things.