via Evelyn Rodrguez:
As Pico Iyer wrote several years ago in an essay in Time magazine, "if noise is the signature tune of the world, silence is the music of the other world, the closest thing we know to the harmony of the spheres." He goes on to say that it is no coincidence that places of worship are places of silence, where we can listen to something behind the clamor of the world. Silence is the tribute we pay to holiness; we slip off words when we enter a sacred space, just as we slip off shoes. -
Galen Guengerich, "Wide Margins"