I love this passage from author, Nicholas Sparks, which reads in its entirety:
“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
A simpler measure is that silence is golden. It speaks loudly within those delicate spaces of heart, turning all that we have into ‘just enough.’
Silence is the bridge between doubt and courage. And within its spaciousness we find our knowing.
My darlings, on this day – a blessing of solitude and silence; that we might each realize the fullness of our own inner being.