True silence is a suspension bridge that a soul in love with God builds to cross the dark, frightening gullies of its own mind, the strange chasms of temptation, the depthless precipices of its own fears that impede its way to God.
True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness, and utter joy. True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God. it is a sealed foundation that he along can unseal to slacken the soul's intimate thirst for him.
True silence is a key to the immense and flaming heart of God. it is the beginning of a divine courtship that will end only in the immense, creative, fruitful, loving silence of final union with the Beloved.
-Catherine de hueck Doherty, Poustinia
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