People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.