Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.