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Is Silence the Language of Love?

Is Silence the Language of Love? Don't you think Language is for non-lovers, those who are not in love. For lovers, silence is enough language. Without saying anything, they go on speaking? Why or Why not? God Bless Update : I am talking particularly about Lovers? Update 2: I am talking particularly about Lovers. Best Answer Asker's Choice Into My Heart You Whisper answered 4 years ago Hi...Times that words are not just enough to speak what the heart could exactly feel when it's filled with love and passion. Love is a profound energy force that can be transmitted through waves that comes from the mind. The mind is powerful enough to reach out into the senses ...

The Language of Silence

The language of the heart is silence—not a bleak, empty silence, but a profound and meaningful silence that ceaselessly sings the glory of God. Archimandrite Meletios Webber +++ The language…is silence. I will violate this wonderful oxymoron by speaking about the silence . It is the inherent problem with all theology. We use words to speak about what is ineffable. When we speak best about such things we speak in contradictions and oxymorons – in riddles, enigmas, mysteries and paradox. For the truth of these things is not in the words but in the space between the words, the silence brought about by the contradiction. It is said by the fathers that “silence is the language of heaven.” Fr. Meletios’ transference of the statement from heaven to the heart simply recognizes that the heart (in the sense in which he writes about it) is the place of heaven. Those who do not now know heaven have yet to find the place of the heart. Finding the place of the h...