Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being’s awareness of itself in us.
A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to ‘like’ one another. Love governs the will: ‘liking’ is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also.
Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.
If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one’s neighbor.
Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.
For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.
Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.
The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.
To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
But precisely this illusion that everything is “clear” is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.
To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.
The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.
There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the “sacred” attitude and the acceptance of one’s in most self.
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.