"Patience is a true means for reaching God. In patience the soul rejoices spiritual bliss and kinship with the Beloved…"

"Patience has three stages; first, it means that the servant ceases to complain and this is the stage of repentances; …"

"Asceticism concerns the soul for the next world. True asceticism means the thrusting out from the heart of all worldl…"

"Pure love of God illuminates the soul of the lover and the mysteries of His divinity are revealed by God when the vis…"

"Love leads to knowledge of the Divine mysteries and those who love abide in God and look to Him only, and He is neare…"

"Gnosis truly, is a light which God casts into the heart. True knowledge of God is gained when the lover comes in cont…"

"The servant does not attain to assurance of the doctrine of the Unity except by means of gnosis."

"Gnosis means the vision of God, for when the eyes of the soul is stripped of all the veils which hindered it from see…"

"[...] qui expresse non dicit substantiam, neque accidens, neque Deum, nec creaturam, sed haec omnia per modum unius, …"

"(About the Assumption of Mary) It is not likely that assumption should be understood of the soul only, both because l…"