The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

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.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

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

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.