My desire for silence should not be construed to mean that I want these conversations to end. I do not. Rather, I recognize in this longing for silence something which, for lack of a better way to say it, is the ground of my own experience. I know, deeply and experientially, that there are things we cannot know through words alone. In fact, faith and practice do not really submit themselves to discourse and discursive forms. There is something more — something about silence and careful attention to it.
— Amanda Millay Hughes, Five Voices, Five Faiths