After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

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.

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