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.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

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.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He