Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.