Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'

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

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.