The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.

It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.