“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”

“The first is that he must be well-ordered from without in all virtues and unhindered within, just as empty of all outward works as though he were not working. For if he is busy within by any work of virtue, then he is assailed by images. As long as that is going on in him, he cannot contemplate.”

“In every community, there is work to be done.
In every nation, there are wounds to heal.
In every heart, there is the power to do it.”

“Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”

“The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.”

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

“It is a conjunction of images I have always loved in his Sonnets to Orpheus and this work is, in a way, a kind of eye which is reflecting images endlessly”

“The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject-matter outside themselves. Modern painters work in a different way. They work from within.”

“To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.”

“I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.”