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.

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.