If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

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

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.