For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God’s image that they see.
The ultimate and highest leave taking is leaving God for God, leaving your notion of God for an experience of that which transcends all notions.
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.
I am what I wanted and I want what I am.
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.
God is greater than God.
What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.
To the quiet mind all things are possible.
The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.
God is not good, or else he could do better.