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.

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

Every creature is a word of God.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

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

The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.