I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer he does approach divinity.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who de…

Le peche, c'est ce qui obscurcit l'ame.

In the name of God, I put my trust in God. O God, I seek refuge in Thee lest I stray or be led astray or cause injustice or suffer injustice or do wrong or hav…

The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.