The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever...

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard...

There is no stopping place in this life — nor is there ever one for any man, no matter how far along his way he’s gone.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

God ‘ s gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver.

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow – for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This...

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...

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

The more we have the less we own.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me

Every creature is a word of 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...

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action

[…] Cause in eternity there’s no yesterday or tomorrow, but only Now.

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you...

There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as...

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether....

God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections...

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself – and let God be God in you’? One could think that, in separating himself from creatures, the mystic leaves his brothers,...

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow...

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the...

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Alle Dinge müssen, der Mensch allein ist das Wesen, welches will.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity…. But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything...

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘thank you’, it will be enough.

No-one knows what the soul is.. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

Jesus might have said, ”I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.”

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as he is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul – in the innermost of the soul