A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

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

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .

God cannot know himself without me.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.