My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
My best writing has always been in journals.
Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you’ll find out when you need to – find out both the questions and the answers.
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.
We love the things we pretend to laugh at.
We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.
For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another?
When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.
People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.