Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.

If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.