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.
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.
And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?
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