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

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.

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

Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.