If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.