“We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.”
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
“The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.”
“We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.”