Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!
Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.
Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.
Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud
God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.
Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.
I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. By letting go of even the thought 'I,' and 'me' what is left? There is nowhere to stand and no one to stand there. No separation anywhere. Pure awareness. Neither this, nor that. Just clarity and being.