Whose silence are you?

The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.

There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.