Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

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

A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God