The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

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.

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

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