The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

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.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.