Quotes about Contemplation

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly. 'Quite so…

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.