The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

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.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order

It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.