The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things.

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.

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.