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

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

Take more time, cover less ground.

You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.