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.
May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.
Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.
Love is the door to eternity.
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of “choice” when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.
Love winter when the plant says nothing.
The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.