I have known the silence of the marsh beyond Rye and Winchelsea,  and the silence of the little roads that led back into the downs. Silence of the Rother’s cool stream below the hill at Wittersham, on the road to Bodiam Castle. Silence of the fens at Ely. Silence out toward Norwich and Lady Julian. Silence of Little Gidding, which I have heard only in Eliot, but I am part of the same silence.Thomas Merton  Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Doubleday, 1966)A man who, while remembering God, respects every man, by a hidden movement of God’s hand himself receives help from every man. A man who protects the injured has God as his helper; a man who stretches his hand to aid his brother has God’s arm to support him. Isaac of Syria  in Seeking God, by Esther de W