The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

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

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.