The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

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

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.