“Many of the things we are doing seem so important to us. We haven’t been able to say ‘No’ to them, because they seemed so important. But if we center down as the old phrase goes, and live in that holy Silence which is dearer than life, and take our life program into the silent places of the heart, with complete openness, ready to do, ready to renounce according to His leading, then many of the things we are doing lose their vitality for us.” Thomas R. Kelly (The Simplification of Life)