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"I started to think that perhaps silence is God. Perhaps God is silence — the shining, spinning ring 'of pure and endless light'. Perhaps God speaking is a 'verb', an act, but God in perfect self- communication, in love within the Trinity, is silent and therefore is silence. God is silence, a silence that is positive, alive, actual and of its 'nature' unbreakable. Perhaps the verb 'God' — speaking, creating — is one more reflex of the infinite generosity, the self-giving abandonment, the kenotic love of God. Perhaps the incarnation of the Word is but a secondary expression of that 'for our hardness of heart”. Far from 'all silence is waiting to be broken' perhaps all speech is crying out like a woman in travail' to be reabsorbed into silence, into death, into the liminal space that opens out into the presence of the everlasting silence."
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Be mindful even if your mind is full. -J. De La Vega
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