The quiet mind Brings calmness, Infinite, eternal grace. Born inside silence Is the will to be. Chaos becoming order, The holiness of life, The unfolding of Great Mystery.
To live a contemplative life is to be open enough to see, free enough to hear, real enough to respond. It is a life, and so has its own rhythms of darkness, dying-rising. Simply enough, it is a life of grateful receptivity, or wordless awe, of silent simplicity.
~ S. Marie Baha in MEDITATIONS ON NATURE, MEDITATIONS ON SILENCE
