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SILENCE
In spiritual terms, the conscious effort to communicate with God or the invisible world of faith in preference to conversation with other people. It is, therefore, not the mere absence of sound or physical stillness, except as either a precondition for recollection of spirit or the perceptible effect of being recollected. (Etym. Latin silere, to be still, noiseless.)
