Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

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.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.