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Quotes from Invitation to Solitude and Silence


A journey begins with knowing where we are and being willing to go somewhere else. (25)--
Richard Rohr

In silence all of our usual patterns assault us...that is why most people give up quickly. When Jesus was led into the wilderness the first things to show up were wild beasts (43)--
Richard Rohr

God comes like sun in the morning--when it is time. We must assume the attitude of waiting.....(49)
--Carlo Carretto

for want of rest our lives are in danger (55)
--Wayne Muller

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foriegn tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps syou will thengradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer (75)
--Rainer Marie Rilke

What deadens us most to God's presence within, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are engaged in within ourselves. (81).
--Fredericjk Buechner

Inner silence depends on a continual seeking, a continual crying in the night, a repeated bending over the abyss.....For He is found when He is sought, and when he is no longer sought he escapes us. (85)
--Thomas Merton

The deepest level of communication is not communication but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. (111)
--Merton

Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech
--Bonhoeffer