Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up.

God comes to us disguised as our life.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence