To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

Action and becoming are one.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you