Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and then chewed it up for you before giving it to you?" If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will be to you a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine.