God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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.
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.
They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul.
If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away.
If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.
What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
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.
For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
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 or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself, you will not succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is the great righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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.
There exists only the present instant …
There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now …
Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to
remain still and let God act and speak in you.
Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
Compassion is where peace and justice kiss
What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.
You will have peace to the extent that you have God, and the further you are away from God the less you will be at peace… Thus you may measure your progress with God by measuring your peace or the lack of it.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.
People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.