Silence

Claude Monet

"Silence is never merely the cessation of words . . . Rather it is the pause that holds together-indeed, it makes sense of-all the words, both spoken and unspoken. Silence is the glue that connects our attitudes and our actions. Silence is the fullness, not emptiness; it is not absence, but the awareness of a presence."

John Chryssavgis, 

In the Heart of the Desert: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers"

A great book.