“Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.”

“Have you ever given yourself to a kiss so completely, that you felt like you surrendered some of yourself and replaced it with a part of them?”

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.)”

“once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.”

“You can’t receive self-assurance or esteem, it’s something you just give yourself. Nothing in the world can complete you, other than yourself. Loneliness is an illusion, people try to search for themselves in other people or objects and it’s pointless. If you are with yourself, you are never lonely, if you hide from yourself you will always be lonely no matter how many people you try to cover that up with. Loneliness is a state of mind, not a situation that the world throws at you.”

“If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.”