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