Each of us has to find our own peace from within. And for peace to be real, it must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
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 it has its own rhythms of darkness, of dying-rising. Simply enough, it is a live of grateful receptivity, or wordless awe, of silent simplicity.