Note:
Maybe it’s just the contrast between the noise of the world and the silence of the soul, but it seems clear that silence teaches us to pay attention, to notice, to focus. Both to God and to the people he puts in our lives.

Quote:
“We’re constantly distracted, forever listening to a subtext that keeps us from focusing. There is so much noise in our lives–emails, texts, phone calls, Twitter notifications, Instagram notifications, Facebook updates–that we are unable to hear, to listen. Our attention is always being interrupted.

“Silence actually teaches us to listen. It helps us learn how to listen to the voice of God, a voice we maybe have not been able to recognize. It helps us listen to the people in our lives who speak loving, truthful words of correction or affirmation to us. In silence we hear the truth that God is not as hard on us as we are on ourselves.” (p. 171)

Source: Heuertz, Christopher L. The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2017.