Each of us needs an opportunity to be alone and silent, or even, indeed, to find space in the day or in the week, just to reflect and to listen to the voice of God that speaks deep within us. . . . In fact, our search for God is only our response to his search for us. He knocks at our door, but for many people, their lives are too preoccupied for them to be able to hear. — Cardinal Basil Hume

As the wise, old Abbot Moses said when a brother came to him for a good word, "Go, sit in your cell [a monk's room], and your cell will teach you everything.

Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device.

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.

Augustine said, "You [Lord God] have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] MATTHEW 11:28

sitting on that bench just pondering. I don't

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.

My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.