Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

I have need to busy my heart with quietude.

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

Silence is a still noise.

and silence is the golden mountain

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Only silence perfects silence.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I really love peace and quiet.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

When I get by the ocean, that's the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.