Silence Puts Us in Touch with Our Deeper Self

"In silence we face and admit the gap between the depths of our being, which we consistently ignore, and the surface which is untrue to our own reality. We recognize the need to be at home with ourselves in order that we may go out to meet others, not just with a mask of affability, but with real commitment and authentic love. If we are afraid of being alone, afraid of silence, it is perhaps because of our secret despair of inner reconciliation. If we have no hope of being at peace with ourselves in our own personal loneliness and silence, we will never be able to face ourselves at all: we will keep running and never stop. Silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence."
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Thomas Merton

Photos: Ice patterns on The Loch, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, December 14, 2015

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