As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

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.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.