Love is its own reward.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

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

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.