A Soulful Journey

The reaction of silence to the presence of God is behind the old Buddhist proverb, "Those who know do not speak, and those who speak do not know."  Abraham Joshua Heschel taught about Jewish prayer that, "our liturgy is a higher form of silence."

"The woman in the taxi is having a discussion with the driver.  "The point is," says the driver, "that God is always with the Jews, always." What then, asks the woman, about the Christians, the Moslems, the Buddhists.  God has not time for them?  "Yes," concedes the driver, "he does, but he has more time for the Jews." What about the Holocaust? the woman asks.  The driver is silent for the rest of the journey.  As the woman gets out of the taxi, he turns to her and says: "Lady, you're OK as a person.  Your problem is that you have too little faith."