When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.
Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.