It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
Interpretation
This quote illustrates the profound absence of communication and connection that can exist beyond just silence.
In this quote, Madeleine L'Engle explores the concept of silence not merely as an absence of sound, but as a deeper emotional experience that signifies a complete lack of connection or understanding. She emphasizes that while silence can hold meaning through vibrations or the feelings it evokes, there are moments when the silence is so profound that it feels empty, leaving one isolated and without any perceivable sensations or connections.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about the importance of emotional connections in relationships.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?
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