I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
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.