Silence and Contemplation

I'm kind of curious because I love the interplay of your work about this holy awe, this presence, and yet empire trying to crush it. Have you found silence or contemplation to be an important part of the, I mean, you've written so, so much. And I wonder if that's a part of your practice at all for writing. It's not the kind of silence which you mentioned with Merton and so on. I think that's not a tradition I inhabit. I'm much more text based than that.