I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. Chaim Potok Silence. If you find yourself scratching your head in confusion and wondering what it is then today's quote is for you. Just to refresh your memory a bit...silence is that thing that happens when the TV is off, the computer isn't on, the phones are off, no appliances are running and you feel like without all of those things (and whatever else causes noise in your world) there is a big empty space with no noise. That, my friends, is silence. Silence is funny because it is one of those things that makes people super uncomfortable. They squirm, they are agitated, they can't sit still, basically they can't handle it. So slowly the noise comes back. The radio is turned on (just on low so I have some sort of background music for my silence. Um...) and then the phone is turned back on (just to vibr...