He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

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.

There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

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.