Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.

It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.