If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.

To Love is to reach God.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have done nothing at all. So people have come into the world for particular tasks, and that is our purpose. If we don't perform it, we will have done nothing.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love.