Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.