You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
~ Henry Drummond
Sometimes there would be a rush of noisy visitors and the silence of the monastery would be shattered. This would upset the monks; not the Master who seemed just as content with the noise as with the silence. To those protesting he said one day, "Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. "