…until we are quiet and listen, we can never know what is really going on—even in ourselves. Especially in ourselves.

Silence frightens us because it is silence that brings us face-to-face with ourselves. It tells us what we’re obsessing about. it reminds us of what we have not resolved within ourselves.

Silence is, in other words, life’s greatest teacher. It shows us what we have yet to become. Silence, the contemplative knows, is that place just before the voice of God.

from Illuminated Life