Hesychasm Quotes & Sayings

Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride. — Roman Payne

Syntheses between East and West based simply on a similarity of "spiritualities" or "mystical experiences" could not be achieved even then - how much less so today! So we must judge any program as inadequate that tries simply to let India and Europe encounter each other at the halfway-station of Byzantine hesychasm, in the practice of the Jesus prayer and of certain bodily positions and breathing exercises - all ways in which Eastern Christianity reorientalized itself after the period of the great synthesis. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design. — Richard Dawkins

The ambiance of solitude, the absence of any disturbing noise and of worldly desires and images, the quiet and calm attention of the mind to God, helped by prayer and leisurely reading, flow into that "quies" or "rest" of the soul in God. A simple and joyful rest, full of God, that leads the monk to feel, in some way, the beauty of eternal life. — Carthusian Monks

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it. — John Thomas Sladek

I love waking up to Sunday morning pancakes. The whole process of making them, just out in the kitchen together making pancakes on a Sunday morning; that's an experience every girl should have. — Ronda Rousey

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now. — Pierce Brosnan