Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together

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.

As a vampire, you must accept that every person you ever know will die, and you are the only constant in your life, the only person you can—and should—rely on.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

Let's say loudly and clearly, Right to Work is wrong for workers and wrong for America.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.