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

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

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.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.