Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.