There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.

The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure.And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.

When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.