A life of grateful receptivity

S. Marie Baha

To live a contemplative life is to be open enough to see, free enough to hear, real enough to respond. It is a life, and so has its own rhythms of darkness, dying-rising. Simply enough, it is a life of grateful receptivity, or wordless awe, of silent simplicity.

~ S. Marie Baha in MEDITATIONS ON NATURE, MEDITATIONS ON SILENCE

Meditations On Silence, Meditations On Nature

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