The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.Collection: God
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.Collection: Brainy
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.Collection: Sympathy
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.Collection: God
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.Collection: Thankful
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.Collection: Work
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.Collection: Attitude
Every creature is a word of God.Collection: God
God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.Collection: Home
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.Collection: God
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 as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.Collection: Inspirational
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.Collection: God
Words derive their power from the original word.Collection: Power
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 made and let God be God in you.Collection: God
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.Collection: Best
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Recovery
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 receiveCollection: Faith
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.Collection: Mother
For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: Prayer
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.Collection: Book
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.Collection: Soul
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.Collection: Good Morning
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.Collection: God
And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.Collection: New Beginnings
Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Running
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.Collection: World
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.Collection: Grief
Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creating equality. Nor is there any pleasure without equality. Practice equality in human society. Learn to love, esteem, consider all people like yourself. What happens to another, be it bad or good, pain or joy, ought to be as if it happened to you.Collection: Pain
To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.Collection: God
To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.Collection: Birth
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.Collection: Philosophical
God cannot know himself without me.Collection: Knows
The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.Collection: Men
If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.Collection: Soul
No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.Collection: Men
Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.Collection: Source
When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.Collection: Fetch
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.Collection: Justice
Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.Collection: Knowing
God is the word that speaks itself.Collection: Speak
Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.Collection: Father
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.Collection: Soul
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... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.Collection: People
All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.Collection: Father