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

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.