Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.