If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

God is greater than God.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

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.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.