The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it.

There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.