Hannah

“When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That’s how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter. We do not shout them to each other. We may shout about them to others, but quietness is the hallmark of love.”
― J. Brent Bill, Holy Silence: The Gift Of Quaker Spirituality

“Keep everything open and live from openness to openness.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.”
― Thomas Keating O C S O

“The story is told of Mother Theresa that when an interviewer asked her. "What do you say when you pray?" she answered, "I listen." The reporters paused a moment, then asked, "Then what does God say?" and she replied, "He listens." It is hard to imagine a more succinct way to get at the intimacy of contemplative prayer.”
― Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies