Showing posts with label Ron Rolheiser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ron Rolheiser. Show all posts

Saturday, August 15, 2020

beyond words










There’s a language beyond words. Silence creates the space for it. 
Sometimes when we feel powerless to speak words that are meaningful, 
when we have to back off into unknowing and helplessness,
 but remain in the situation, silence creates the space 
that’s needed for a deeper happening to occur. 
But often, initially, that silence is uneasy. 
It begins “as a small frightened thing”
 and only slowly grows 
into the kind of warmth 
that dissolves tension.



~ Ron Rolheiser
from  The Healing Place of Silence
art by Alfredo Ramos Martinez