It's ironic that we rush through being "single" as if it's some disease or malady to get rid of or overcome. The truth is, most likely, one day you will meet someone and it will be gone. And once it's gone, it's really gone! Why does no one tell us how important it is to enjoy being single and being by yourself? That time is defining and amazing and nothing to "sure". It is being alone that will actually set you up the best for being with someone else.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.