!["To seek silence is to seek God; to love silence, to learn the beauty of stillness, is to invite God to touch us and our lives." - Text and photo by Vianney Carriere.](https://i0.wp.com/anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Butterfly.jpg?fit=620%2C410&ssl=1)
Sheer silence
Silence is something like one’s good health. It is most prized when abruptly taken away, most cherished when suddenly recovered, when, as with the rush of light, we suddenly realize that we have been deprived of it for a long time. Then as it returns, a wealth of rediscovered feelings comes with it. Silence begins as something external and it becomes a state of being.