Quotes from Elizabeth O'Connor

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

The spiritual law at the core of our being requires that we reach out. We are fulfilled to the extent that we live in relationships.

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.

We do not experience ourselves as a gift until we are engaged in the act of creating.

Silence will put us in touch with yearnings, anxieties, pain, despair, envy, competition, and a host of other feelings that need to be put into words if we are to move toward a place of centeredness and come into possession of our lives. The fact is that most of us have an incredible amount of unfaced suffering in our histories that has to be looked at and worked through.