When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

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.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Every creature is a word of God.