It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

The world is God's language to us.

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.