“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”

“If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living. ”

“When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”

“There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.”

“Nobody at any time is cut off from God.”

“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.”

“[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.”