“This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.”

“Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger”

“That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves”

“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”

“Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art?Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and repeatable experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies about ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to destroy the limitations caused by our ignorance or lack of courage; in short, to fill the emptiness in us: to fulfill ourselves...art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.”

“Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ”