Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

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.

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