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.

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

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.

For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.