On silence

I thought this was a good point from Fr. Thomas Keating:

Silence is so much an aspect of the spirituality of the old and New Testament. Everything comes out of silence and returns to it. So it should be a part of education...It is through the practice of silence that we begin to become vulnerable to the true self and the supernatural organism we receive with grace and baptism...We think that even preschoolers should be introduced to silence.

Read some more interesting thoughts in this post at Stranger in a Strange Land.