From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown
There is the rest of detachment and withdrawal when the spirit moves into the depths of the region of the Great Silence…Here the Presence of God is sensed as an all pervasive aliveness which materializes into the concreteness of communion: the reality of prayer. Here God speaks without words and the self listens without ears. Here at last, glimpses of the meaning of all things and the meaning of one’s own life are seen with all their strivings.
-Howard Thurman, The Inward Journey