Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours.
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr. , Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu. ]
We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
When you are a part of a world that is within an enclosed system, the biggest threat is that the loss of contact with any voice from the outside - a point of reference that is different from you - becomes habitual. The loss of this reference makes the enclosed system seem perfect. I can still feel this kind of threat today, the voice that gives legitimacy to various kinds of enclosure.
Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.