Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
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French Monk, Legislator of the Carthusian Order, Fifth Prior of the Grande Chartreuse and Ascetic Writer
"Let no temporal things be the cause of thy peace; for then wilt thou be as worthless and fragile as they. You would have such a peace in common with the brutes; let thine be that of the angels, which proceeds from truth."
"Reading seeks, meditation finds, prayer asks, contemplation feels... That is to say "Seek and you shall find: knock and the door will be opened for you." That means also, seek through reading, and you will find holy meditation in your thinking; and knock through praying, and the doors shall be opened to you to enter through heavenly contemplation to feel what you desire."