Timely Silence

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“An early century desert monk once shared an image:

‘When the door of the steam bath is continually left open, the heat inside rapidly escapes through it; likewise the soul, in its desire to say many things, dissipates its remembrance of God through the door of speech, even though everything it says is good . . .’

Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.”

~Evelyn Underhill