Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better,…

Thomas Merton
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Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence. ✨ Thomas Merton (1979). Love and Living, p.49, Macmillan
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