Silence – Christine Valters Paintner 

“Silence can be challenging. Not just because the world we live in conspires to fill each moment with noise – from radios to televisions to movies to music to urban sounds of traffic and to the congestion of people living close together – but because there is also a fear of entering into silence. When we are used to living at a distance from our deep center – caught up in the surface chatter – dropping down into the silent pool of God’s presence can evoke fearfulness. What might we discover when we pause long enough to really hear?”
— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom