“If we turn within and see only noise, chaos, thinking, anxiety—what R. S. Thomas calls “the mind’s kingdom,” then we have not seen deeply enough into the vast and expansive moors of human awareness. When the wandering, roving mind grows still, when fragmented craving grows still, when the “heart’s passions” are rapt in stillness, then is “the mind’s cession of its kingdom,” a great letting go as a deeper dimension of the human person is revealed. From this depth God is seen to be the ground of both peace and chaos, one with ourselves and one with all the world, the ground “in whom we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). This depth of silence is more than the mere absence of sound and is the key.”