"I Don't Need for the Rocks to Yell at Me. I Always Speak to Them Anyways".
This is a quote from a modern Catholic mystic, Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast living in western New York. Read this thought-provoking profile by John Horgan, author of "Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality." There are many amazing reads here by this author.