Chapter 1: Four approaches to monastic life

[Gyrovagues] are always on the move; they never settle to put down the roots of stability; it is their own wills that they serve as they seek the satisfaction of their own gross appetites. (From para. 4 of Ch. 1 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

I experience stability as a quality of heart which is always there when I remember to return to it.