This is the right time, and this is the right thing.
Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.
In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.
[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.