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We Need Silence in Order to Do Good in the World
We need silence in the sense of pristine attention in order to do good in the world. The Quakers practice silence together, which by that we haven't touched on shared silence,. But silence is magnified when it's shared. And so together they're tuning into what is true, what is the word that needs to be spoken and breaking the silence. An ability to attune to silence is important that we resolve this without blame or softening our positionality.