Peter and Carole Fingesten wrote:

SILENCE is the inaudible echo of the voices of God which is heard with the ears of the heart. It is not simply the absence of speech but a state of being. It is a universal language that speaks and comprehends all, contains all languages and all accents, tolerates and absorbs all. The paradox of the silence is that one can never say enough about it since it is inexhaustible by its very nature.

Silence enables us to escape the prison of words. As long as we respect it we can neither err nor offend. The implicit message in meeting is our silent presence, the explicit in our verbal statements. Silence creates its own tensions, it fluctuates like waves; after every high there is a low, even soft murmurs as its waves dissipate toward the shore. You may step into the pool of silence denuded and in pain but you will emerge from it restored in truth and peace. Peter and Carole Fingesten, 1987