“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”

This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‘passive action,’ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‘Thought,’ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity.

These seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.

Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.