Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.