Silence, in its pristine dignity and mystery, simply is. It does not need to clamor for our attention or bemoan its absence. Wordless, unfathomable, it awaits.

The goal is to learn to listen to your own inner voice and not just respond to someone else’s ideas. The perfect time to be silent is when you decide you need it.

There is a very common reason that people do not visit or call others who are in pain: they simply don’t what what to say…And so often we choose not to call, not to visit. Our culture doesn’t know what what to do with silence. Silence frightens us. It unveils an intensity that we are not used to facing…If we can get over our fear of silence, if we can learn to embrace it, we will soon come to see that silence is where God lives

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows — then let your heart say in silence, “God rests in reason

There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Silence illuminates our souls, whispers to our hearts, and brings them together

True silence is the rest of the mind, and it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. We sleep to time’s hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God.