The answer was overwhelmingly consistent: beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.
~ Deena Metzger in WRITING FOR YOUR LIFE
Being silent means waiting, waiting for the Other to say something to us. Being silent before God means making room for God ... to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively. The time of silence is a time of responsibility, of blessedness, because it is a time when we live in the peace of God. "For God alone my soul in silence waits."