We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
The world is God's language to us.
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.