Quote for the Day
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
— St. Benedict, The Rule of St. Benedict
Jan
Books by Carl McColman
Answering the Contemplative Call (forthcoming in 2013, but you can preorder from Amazon now).
The Big Book of Christian Mysticism.
The Lion, the Mouse and the Dawn Treader.
Connect with Carl
The Pollinatrix
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S.M. Chamberlain
That’s the best way to say it.
Sue
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Pagan_Monastic
Ain’t that the truth! At the Abbey of which I used to be an Oblate only essential speech was allowed, and it was interesting how much speech was non-essential in the final analysis.
noel
we get too hung up on silence as an ascetic practice
silence your thoughts and desires and maybe then one will find only the essential has place in life including words and speech
all things come from god
that julian of norwich ……………………all is good all will be good etc
claire
Oh this one is so much for me.