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'.

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.

Only he to whom God is present in everything and who employs his reason in the highest degree and has enjoyment in it knows anything of true peace and has a real kingdom of heaven.

God is the word that speaks itself.

Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.