“Our culture is so fearful of the silence of death that it worships nonstop noise—perhaps as a secular sign of “eternal life”! In the midst of all that noise, small silences can help us become more comfortable with the Great Silence toward which we are all headed. Small silences bring us “little deaths,” which, to our surprise, turn out to be deeply fulfilling.”
–Parker Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness, p. 160
