Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.