Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

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)

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

The gate of heaven is everywhere.

How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?

This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.