Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.