The Contemplative Society

“...Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.” - Wendell Berry

“...ladies, light of my eyes, deign to remember me, whether I am in the body or out of the body.” - Saint Egeria (or Etheria or Aetheria ), from her writings now known as the Peregrinatio or Itinerarium Egeriae.

“Somewhere in those depths of silence I came upon my first experiences of God as a loving presence that was always near, and prayer as a simple trust in that presence.” - Cynthia Bourgeault, from Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening.