What is the use of spending one's time in continuous readin… - Guigo II

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What is the use of spending one's time in continuous reading, turning the pages of the lives and sayings of holy men, unless we can extract nourishment from them by chewing and digesting this food so that its strength can pass into our inmost heart?

Guigo II

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Guigo II was a Carthusian monk and the 9th prior of Grande Chartreuse monastery, from 1174 to 1180.

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Isaac the Syrian Thomas à Kempis Augustine of Hippo Søren Kierkegaard Kahlil Gibran

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Let him sit alone, the Scripture says; and indeed, unless he sits and rests, he will not be alone.

Let all my world be silent in your presence, Lord, so that I may hear what the Lord God may say in my heart. Your words are so softly spoken that no one can hear them except in deep silence.

Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.

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