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.

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

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

We love the things we pretend to laugh at.

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

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.