In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

Love is a special way of being alive.

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.