“The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.”

“We are not human beings living a spiritual life. We are spiritual beings living a human life.”

“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”

“We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.”

“The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.”

“If at first you don't succeed, just study the life of Abraham Lincoln.”