Since Holy Week of 2021 the Seeds of Silence website has posted a weekly quote about silence each Monday..
In May 2022, a new quote series began, called 'Quoting Silence: A month with ... '.
In this series, we'll stay with quotes from one author throughout a whole month. 

​August's author is Benignus O'Rourke.
​​​This week's quote from him is below.
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This week's quote

Monday 8th August, 2022
Benignus O'Rourke, Finding Your Hidden Treasure: The Way of Silent Prayer 
​(Darton, Longman and Todd, 2010), 29.
Image: Jonathan Pielmayer, Germany, unsplash.com/@jonathanpielmayer

This short image-backed quote, above, is taken from today's longer quote, below, which is found in Benignus O'Rourke's book, Finding Your Hidden Treasure: The Way of Silent Prayer (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2010), 23, 26 and 29. You can read more about this book by clicking here.

'When Augustine writes his life story, in his Confessions, we read of a soul’s struggle to be itself. We see how his inner life, at every step, was linked with his very deep need for God. ... Augustine always sees the spiritual journey not as a going out, to find God outside, but as a journey inwards. Which is why Augustine urges us, “Wheresoever you are, wheresoever you may be praying, he who hears you is within you, hidden within.” ... If we are prepared to sit in silence and journey to the still centre of our being we shall discover that we have everything within us for our spiritual journey, and there are blessings at each step along the way. What we find on the journey will be different for each one of us. The journey may look the same, but each one’s story is unique. We each find our own truth and treasure. ... Augustine’s great discovery that within each one of us, in the depths of our hearts, lies hidden treasure changed his life and it can change ours. “How much treasure we have within us”, he declares, “but we do not dig for it!” Most of us, of course, could reply that we do not know, perhaps have never been shown, where or how to start looking for it.'
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The 'Quoting Silence:
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