Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

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

God holds each of us by a string. When we sin, we cut the string. But God ties it up again, making a knot. Each time our wrongdoing cuts the string, God ties another knot drawing us up closer to Him.

Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.