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.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?

The end of the world will be legal.