In fact, what separates man from divine Reality is but a thin partition: God is infinitely close to man, but man is infinitely far from God. This partition, for man, is a mountain; man stands before a mountain which he must remove with his own hands. He digs away the earth, but in vain, the mountain remains; man however goes on digging, in the name of God. And the mountain vanishes. It was never there.
Stations of Wisdom, 2005, p. 157
The human vocation is to realize that which constitutes man’s raison d’être: a projection of God and, therefore, a bridge between earth and Heaven; or a point of view that allows God to see Himself starting from an other-than-Himself, even though this other, in the final analysis, can only be Himself, for God is known only through God.
roots of the human condition, 1991, p.45
Every time man stands before God wholeheartedly − that is, “poor” and without being puffed up − he stands on the ground of absolute certitude, the certitude of his conditional salvation and the certitude of God. And that is why God has given us the gift of this supernatural key that is prayer: in order that we might stand before Him as in the primordial state, and as always and everywhere; or as in eternity.
survey of metaphysics and esoterism, 2003, p.184
Man’s thought, or his intelligence, is made for the divine Truth, and man’s heart, or his being, is made for the divine Presence.
la conscience de l’absolu, 2016, p. 4
The cosmic, and more particularly the earthly, function of beauty is to actualize in the intelligent and sensitive creature the Platonic recollection of the archetypes, and thus open the way towards the luminous Night of the one and infinite Essence.
Esoterism as a principle and as a way, 2019, p. 171
In order to be happy, man must have a center; now this center is above all the certitude of the One. The greatest calamity is the loss of the center and the abandonment of the soul to the caprices of the periphery. To be man is to be at the center; it is to be center.
echoes of perennial wisdom, 2012, p. 7
The human being, by his nature, is condemned to the supernatural.
Survey of metaphysics and esoterism, 2003, p. 191
Objective intelligence, free will, virtuous soul: these are the three prerogatives that constitute man.
Esoterism as a principle and as a way, 2019, p. 97
Reason perceives the general and proceeds by logical operations, whereas Intellect perceives the principial − the metaphysical − and proceeds by intuition.
gnosis, divine Wisdom, 2006, p. 36
When God is absent, pride fills the void.
Esoterism as a principle and as a way, 2019, p. 116
To love God does not mean to cultivate a sentiment − that is to say, something we enjoy without knowing whether God enjoys it − but to eliminate from the soul what prevents God from entering it.
Stations of wisdom, 2005, p. 93
Without fear of God as a basis, nothing is possible spiritually, for the absence of fear is a lack of self-knowledge.
echoes of perennial wisdom, 2012, p. 30
The beautiful is not that which we love and because we love it, but that which by its objective value obliges us to love it.
Sufism: veil and quintessence, 2006, p. 96
The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it.
la conscience de l’absolu, 2016, p. 59
The worldly or imperfect man journeys through life as if on a long road; if he is a believer, he sees God above him in the far distance, and also at the end of this road. However the spiritual man stands in God, and life passes before him like a stream.
VErs l’Essentiel: lettres d’un maître spirituel, 2013, p. 94
Truth is the raison d’être for man’s existence; it constitutes our grandeur and reveals to us our smallness.
La conscience de l’Absolu, 2016, p. 55
The sense of the sacred is the capacity to perceive, or feel, the presence of the Celestial in earthly symbols, whether sacramental or natural; and this implies the sense of dignity as well as of devotion.
La conscience de l’Absolu, 2016, p. 57
To accept a trial is to thank God for it, with the understanding that it permits us a victory, a detachment with regard to the world and with regard to the ego.
La conscience de l’Absolu, 2016, p. 67
There are two moments in life which are everything, and these are the present moment, when we are free to choose what we wish to be, and the moment of death, when we no longer have any choice and the decision belongs to God. Now if the present moment is good, death shall be good; if we are with God now − in this present which is ceaselessly being renewed but which always remains this one and only moment of actuality − God shall be with us at the moment of our death. The remembrance of God is a death in life; it shall be a life in death.
echoes of perennial wisdom, 2012, p. 42
Every injustice that we suffer at the hands of men is at the same time a trial that comes to us from God.
Esoterism as a principle and as a way, 2019, p. 139
Faith is to say “yes” to God. When man says “yes” to God, God says “yes” to man.
echoes of perennial wisdom, 2012, p. 15
Man prays, and prayer fashions man. The saint has himself become prayer, the meeting place of earth and Heaven; he thereby contains the universe, and the universe prays with him. He is everywhere where nature prays, he prays with her and in her: in the peaks which touch the void and eternity, in a flower that scatters its scent, or in the carefree song of a bird. He who lives in prayer has not lived in vain.
Spiritual perspectives and human facts, 2007, p. 228
