Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.