In my experience, silence has been this and more. It is a space where my thoughts meet my fear and my fears meet my happiness and my gratefulness rejoices and my emotions catch up with my logic and my heartbeat slows down. It is as much of a physical process as an emotional one. Thus, allowing slivers of peace to fill into the other spaces. There within those slivers of peace I gain my humbleness. A humbleness of recognition that a power greater than myself remains in control.