The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

I need to be silent for awhile, worlds are forming in my heart.

Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well as in church, or in the desert or in a monastic cell...Why is this so? It is so because such a person possesses God alone, keeping their gaze fixed upon God, and thus all things become God for him or her. Such people be a God in all their deeds and in all the places they go, and it is God alone who is the author of all their deeds.