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

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.