Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

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