“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.”

“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.”

“A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.”

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

“God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.”

“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”

“God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.”

“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”

“All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”