While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

A daydream is an evasion.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.