I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.