The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

The one who sings, prays twice.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?