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Silence

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The passage shared at meeting for worship on November 28 was from Peter Fingesten and Carole Cacace Fingesten Forbes:

Silence creates its own tensions, it fluctuates like waves; after every high there is a low; even soft murmurs as its waves dissipate toward the shore. You may step into the pool of silence denuded and in pain but you will emerge from it restored in truth and peace. 

The passage is an excerpt from a meditation on silence, written while Peter was hospitalized, which appeared in the September 1987 issue of the Friends Journal ("Through the Darkness, Back to the Light: Spiritual Aspects of Depression"). 

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