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“...liberation was found in how you lived your daily life and not something you hoped for in the future. If you couldn't experience liberation in the present moment, you would never experience it.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Hermitage Among the Clouds: An Historical Novel of Fourteenth Century Vietnam

“The Nazis would not have turned their backs on the ideas of freedom and Christian love which alone can help man get along, if these ideas had not put up such a miserable show during the last centuries.”
― Ella K. Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939

“...their spiritual reading of the Bible, a reading understood as a means to salvation, an initiation into the Light, an approach to communion with the Living One, teaches us to be on our guard against two dangers. On the one hand, to beware of the dryness of a certain biblical exegesis today which offers, or claims to offer, exactness at the expense of the living nature of the message. On the other, to beware of the subjectivism which merely domes down to a certain virtuosity in playing the strings off the human psyche, giving the believer the suggestion of 'doing the truth in love' without giving any love for the truth, still less the truth itself.”
― Thomas Spidlik, Drinking from the Hidden Fountain: A Patristic Breviary. Ancient Wisdom for Today's World (Cistercian Studies Series)

“...there is always work to be done. When this task is finished, there will always be another. If I work simply to get my tasks over with, I will never finish.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Hermitage Among the Clouds: An Historical Novel of Fourteenth Century Vietnam