The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort, thanks to Barb Yatsevich
As your prayer and meditation become deeper, they will defend you from the perpetual assaults of the outer world. You will hear the busy hum of that world as a distant exterior melody, and know yourself to be in some way withdrawn from it. You have set a ring of silence between you and it; and behold! within the silence you are free.