Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.