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 will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

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

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

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

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.