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18th December
Bieke Vandekerckhove, The Taste of Silence: How I Came to be At Home with Myself (Liturgical Press, 2015), 86
Lake Cauldron: Vlad Shapochnikov, Amsterdam, unsplash.com/@vladshap
'Curiously, for me silence creates space for the unfamiliar. Silence unglues you from your own little world and wishes. I know this sounds like a paradox. From the outside it looks like you withdraw into yourself. But it isn’t that way. It is precisely in the silence that you unhook from your own self. You become distanced from yourself. And that creates space for something other than you. Granted, at first the silence throws people back onto themselves, and that can be a trap. But in a sustained stillness the movement towards the other direction happens sooner or later. A lengthy silence always impels towards the other, the unknown, the unfamiliar.'
'Curiously, for me silence creates space for the unfamiliar. Silence unglues you from your own little world and wishes. I know this sounds like a paradox. From the outside it looks like you withdraw into yourself. But it isn’t that way. It is precisely in the silence that you unhook from your own self. You become distanced from yourself. And that creates space for something other than you. Granted, at first the silence throws people back onto themselves, and that can be a trap. But in a sustained stillness the movement towards the other direction happens sooner or later. A lengthy silence always impels towards the other, the unknown, the unfamiliar.'
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