Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

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.

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.

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