CMB

“God is the most obvious thing in the world. He is absolutely self-evident-the simplest, clearest and closest reality of life and consciousness. We are only unaware of him because we are too complicated, for our vision is darkened by the complexity of pride. We seek him beyond the horizon with our noses lifted high in the air, and fail to see that he lies at our very feet. We flatter ourselves in premeditating the long, long journey we are going to take in order to find him, the giddy heights of spiritual progress we are going to scale, and all the time are unaware of the truth that “God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves." We are like birds flying in quest of the air, or men with lighted candles searching through the darkness for fire. (p. 90)”
― Alan W. Watts, Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion

“The total transcendence of the godhead quite surpasses the capacity of ordinary speech. God can be thought about more truly than he can be talked about, and he is more truly than he can be thought about. (The Trinity, 7.7)”
― Saint Augustine

“What is not expressed generally has greater power than words. (p. 214)”
― Elder Porphyrios, Wounded by Love

“Tao is obscured when men understand only one of a pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. (p. 42)”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu