The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.

It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.