It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.

Renunciation is submission to time.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.