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.

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

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.