The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting joy. But if we refuse His love and remain in the coldness of sin and opposition to Him and to other men then will His fire (by our own choice rather than His) become our everlasting enemy, and Love, instead of being our joy, will become our torment and our destruction.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.