How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

There is a ‘movement’ of meditation, expressing the basic ‘paschal’ rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in Christ. Sometimes prayer, meditation and contemplation are ‘death’ – a kind of descent...

He may really have been enjoying an embryonic composition of his own stimulated by mere hints in the book.

You can’t memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning...

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation?...

There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter

The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to...

A severed hand Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history… for contemplation or in fact… Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic...

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

Of the twenty-four hours a day,Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are...

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it’s as though they didn’t happen.

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child’s face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment “seen” that everything which is good, is loved and...

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you...