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

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

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.

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding.