Love is not consolation, it is light.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

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.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.