"The earthly obscures the heavenly.  Human voices drown out the voice of God.  Only in solitude can you begin to sift away the chaff and come at last to the golden grains of truth.  The world will confuse you.  Silence will speak more to you in a day than the world of voices can teach you in a lifetime.  Find silence.  Find solitude - and having discovered her riches, bind her to your heart." 

  Francis J. Roberts