I have an idea heaven will be both absolutely happy and absolutely dark, to protect us from the blaze of God.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life.

You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned."Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face...

The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.