A compilation of quotes on Contempation, Silence, and the Ground of all Being...
The Father spoke one Word, which was his Son, and this Word he speaks always in eternal silence, and in silence must be heard by the soul.
~ St. John of the Cross
Our greatest need is to be silent before this great God, for the only language he hears is the silent language of love.
~ St. John of the Cross
Salvation is about silence.
~ Maggie Ross
If you love truth, love silence.
~ St. Isaac the Syrian
In silence he is heard; in silence worshipped best.
~ Angelus Silesius
Prayer consists of attention.
~ Simone Weil
Be like an astute business man: make stillness be your criterion for testing the value of everything.
~ Evagrius
Attentiveness is the heart’s stillness, unbroken by any thought.
~ Hesychios of Sinai
You must descend from your head to your heart.
~ Theophan the Recluse
There is no map. There is only surrender.
~ Pauline Matarasso
What we should fear is never getting free of ourselves.
~ Teresa of Ávila
Every separation is a link.
~ Simone Weil
Closer to me than I am to myself.
~ St. Augustine
O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, you were within and I was outside myself.
~ St. Augustine
God is your being, and what you are, you are in God.
~ The Cloud of Unknowing
The soul’s center is God.
~ St. John of the Cross
God’s ground is my ground and my ground is God’s ground.
~ Meister Eckhart
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me: one eye, one seeing, one knowledge, one love.
~ Meister Eckhart
The soul that is united with God breathes God in God.
~ St. John of the Cross
It seems to the soul that the entire universe is a sea of love in which it is engulfed.
~ St. John of the Cross
All things become pure God to you, for in all things you see nothing but God.
~ Meister Eckhart
Love melting in love.
~ Teresa of Ávila
Although a man has the scars of healed wounds, they do not deface but ennoble him.
~ Julian of Norwich
The friend of silence comes close to God.
~ St. John Climacus
The noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within.
~ Meister Eckhart