A Book of Silence Quotes

“The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.”
― Sara Maitland, A Book Of Silence

“As Orion disappears to the west in March, Scorpius is rising in the east: Orion was killed by a scorpion, a punishment for boasting there was no living creature who could conquer him, and the scorpion still chases him across the night sky.”
― Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence

“an intensification of both physiological and psychological sensation; disinhibition; a sense of ‘givenness’ or connection; auditory hallucinations – voice hearing of a rather particular kind; boundary confusions; an exhilarating consciousness of being at risk, in peril; ineffability and bliss.”
― Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence

“I have come to prefer the French word jouissance, with its associations of both playfulness (jouer – to play) and joy.”
― Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence