Concerning silence it is said: "O silence, chariot that leads to heaven!" The beginning of the cleansing of the soul is silence in the Lord (exercise in the mental Prayer of Jesus)... The ears of one who is silent (who prays with the mind) hears wondrous things.
Little Russian Philokalia: Abbot Nazarius
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