You can listen to silence, Reuven. 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. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.. You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to. . Chaim Potok
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The quote of "You can listen to silence, Reuven. 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. It talks to me sometimes.

I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it....You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it.

It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it.

It hurts to listen to it then." is basically about the power of listening to silence and how he finally found peace in listening to his own thoughts and not fighting what he thinks about himself. The quote basically (in my opinion) advises people about the importance of trying something new because there is always something better than what you are doing now.

Source: The Chosen

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