Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

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.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

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