Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference betw….

Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacre….

True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, an ability to bounce….

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if….

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand..

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience..

Our real journey in life is interior..

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a mul….

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear..

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business.….

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him..

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blos….

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His ….

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we ….

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another..

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love pea….

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong….

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things..

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees..

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges….