'Our entire life, the whole liturgy, and everything ceremonial are symbols. If you abolish the symbols, then you tear down the walls of your own house.'
'. . .When we abolish the signs, we lose our orientation. Instead, we should search for their meaning. The signs are not to be questioned. We are.'
-A Carthusian monk outside the Grande Chartreuse, in a Sunday afternoon conversation, as documented in Into Great Silence
