If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.