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“There are some silences that are so huge, and fraught, and haunted, and weighed, and shocked, that they just are; there's nothing you can say about them that makes any sense. All you can do is witness them, and feel some deep ache that such things arrive, and must be endured, with wordless aching all around.”
― The Plover
― The Plover
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
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“There was nothing to which they had to “conform” except the secret, hidden, inscrutable will of God which might differ very notably from one cell to another! It is very significant that one of the first of these Verba (Number 3) is one in which the authority of St. Anthony is adduced for what is the basic principle of desert life: that God is the authority and that apart from His manifest will there are few or no principles: “Therefore, whatever you see your soul to desire according to God, do that thing, and you shall keep your heart safe.”
― The Wisdom of the Desert
― The Wisdom of the Desert
“But if we do not dream, then I think perhaps we are misusing our heads. They are not on our shoulders only to be farms for hair.”
― The Plover
― The Plover
“One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is how to mind your own business.
Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.
A serious obstacle to recollection is the mania for directing those you have not been appointed to direct, reforming those you have not been asked to reform, correcting those over whom you have no jurisdiction. How can you do these things and keep your mind at rest? Renounce this futile concern with other men's affairs!
Pay as little attention as you can to the faults of other people and none at all to their natural defects and eccentricities.”
― New Seeds of Contemplation
Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.
A serious obstacle to recollection is the mania for directing those you have not been appointed to direct, reforming those you have not been asked to reform, correcting those over whom you have no jurisdiction. How can you do these things and keep your mind at rest? Renounce this futile concern with other men's affairs!
Pay as little attention as you can to the faults of other people and none at all to their natural defects and eccentricities.”
― New Seeds of Contemplation
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A book club for the members of The Rabbit Room.
Benjamin’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Children's, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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