Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.