The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
Silence is a great friend of the soul; it unveils the riches of solitude. It is very difficult to reach that quality of inner silence. You must make a space for it so that it may begin to work for you.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami
silence does much more than simply tiptoe around; its essence has little to do with the absence of sound waves. For Silence has no opposite. Its embrace is wide and generous enough to receive all, both sound and the absence of sound.
Martin Laird • A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
