The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.

We do not exist for ourselves.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.