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...