Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.