It is commonly considered rude to keep silent in the company of others, but voluntary silence connects rather than distances us from others whose individual differences temporarily fade away creating a shared feeling of harmony and oneness.
Spirituality in the ecological epoch will be based on a sense of
deep communion with all beings through empathy, through the power
of the heart, through our deepest intuition of the sacred pulse of
life and the sacred nature of the cosmos.
~ from A SACRED PLACE TO DWELL by Henryk Skolimowski
