to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence; see how the stars, the moon and sun, how they move in silence . . .
Silence, like the quiet growth of nature and the silent movement of the stars, is the path by which we find God.
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