To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

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.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.