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
