Yes, it's difficult to talk to your heart, and perhaps it isn't even necessary. We simply have to trust and follow the signs and live our Personal Legend; sooner or later, we will realize that we are all part of something, even if we can't understand rationally what that something is.

The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way. Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.

But we must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there is no rules. (….) The heart decides, and what it decides is all that really matters.

If you understand life you need a reality check.

One of the most aggressive things a human being can do is to go against what he or she believes is nice or pretty.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.