His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. World Prayers - Prayer Archive (prayers from all traditions) Inspiration, Spirituality, Faith, Religion. SACRED SILENCE. I know the sacred silence of my body: the secret movement of the hidden cells, the quiet working to renew the tissues' balance, the ceaseless ebb and flow within each artery and vein. I know the silence of the healing wound, the steady, quick replenishment of lost blood, the strange recuperative power of rest and recreation. I know the reproductive power of silent cells that constitute my body.
Mysteries of cell division lie within the boundaries of this very body's skin. How silent the creative working of these cells before I left the womb. How silent is that working still. I know the magic silence of a human mind. I know the depths of silence in the heart: the never uttered depths of love between two lovers or a husband and a wife, the speechless intimacy of a caress, the interweaving spell of friendship rooted in the act of being altogether for another and the faith restoring fact that someone else stands utterly for you. How many are the moods of silence.