A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

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

We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.

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

Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.